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Shawn Yama

Undergraduate Student

I’m fourth-year Computer Science student at Ontario Tech University. I am working on the Card-IT project as an undergraduate research fellow. Card-IT is a web application that teaches Italian through flashcard games. I am developing a visually appealing React.js frontend along with its backend built with Flask and mySQL. My interests in Computer Science are in human-computer interaction, web development and games.

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Publications

  • Yama, S. (2022). Card-IT Versus: A Competitive Multiplayer Game for Testing Italian Verb Morphology [Bachelor’s thesis, Ontario Tech University].

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    @BachelorsThesis{yam2022,
author={Shawn Yama},
title={Card-IT Versus: A Competitive Multiplayer Game for Testing Italian Verb Morphology},
school={University of Ontario Institute of Technology},
year=2022
}

  • Collins, C., Arbour, S., Beals, N., Yama, S., Laffier, J., & Zhao, Z. (2022). Covid Connect: Chat-driven anonymous story-sharing for peer support. In Proceedings of the ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS) (pp. 301–318). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3532106.3533545

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    @InProceedings{col2022a,
title={Covid Connect: Chat-Driven Anonymous Story-Sharing for Peer Support},
author={Collins, Christopher and Arbour, Simone and Beals, Nathan and Yama, Shawn and Laffier, Jennifer and Zhao, Zixin},
booktitle = {ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference},
month = jun,
year = 2022,
doi = {10.1145/3532106.3533545}
}

  • Shimabukuro, M., Zipf, J., Yama, S., & Collins, C. (2023). Evaluating classroom potential for Card-it: Digital flashcards for studying and learning Italian morphology. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA) (pp. 130–136). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.bea-1.11

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    @inproceedings{shimabukuro-etal-2023-evaluating,
    title = "Evaluating Classroom Potential for Card-it: Digital {F}lashcards for Studying and Learning {I}talian Morphology",
    author = "Shimabukuro, Mariana  and
      Zipf, Jessica  and
      Yama, Shawn  and
      Collins, Christopher",
    editor = {Kochmar, Ekaterina  and
      Burstein, Jill  and
      Horbach, Andrea  and
      Laarmann-Quante, Ronja  and
      Madnani, Nitin  and
      Tack, Ana{\"\i}s  and
      Yaneva, Victoria  and
      Yuan, Zheng  and
      Zesch, Torsten},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Toronto, Canada",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.11",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.bea-1.11",
    pages = "130--136",
}

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