by Sean Flanagan | Apr 25, 2023 | Lab Updates, Student Spotlights
Founders Ali Salman and Bekhruz Nuriddinov gave their pitch at the Spacetime Social Pitch Competition on April 13th at the University of San Diego, Knauss School of Business, alongside Dylan Fitzpatrick who was there representing his student-run Venture Capital fund....
by Sean Flanagan | Apr 20, 2023 | Lab Updates, Student Spotlights
Congratulations to the SDSU team on an incredible achievement! Winning the west regional final at the international Venture Capital Investment Competition is a major accomplishment and a testament to the hard work, dedication, and talent of everyone involved. We are...
by Kelsey Azmitia | Nov 15, 2022 | Lab Updates, Student Spotlights
In this year’s Big Data hackathon, DiLab members, Griffin You, Dylan Fitzpatrick, Nhat Huynh, and their team members Jaxon Hill and Duong Lu, took home first place as the “Best Overall Project”! Their project presented their solution Cenos AI, a cloud-based...
by Kelsey Azmitia | Mar 22, 2022 | Lab Updates
We are all extremely proud of all of our DiLab members who presented recently at the Student Research Symposium (SRS) event and want to congratulate those four who received awards! Below are the research projects that were presented at SRS: Digital...
by Kelsey Azmitia | Feb 1, 2022 | Lab Updates
DiLab members have recently presented four research papers at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2022. The papers include: ~ Open Innovation Platform Design: The Case of Social Product Development by Vanessa Roy, Elijah Nobis, Kaveh Abhari,...
by Kelsey Azmitia | Dec 13, 2021 | Lab Updates
Working on “The Experiential Values of Work: A Case of Digital Transformation,” Amara, Mariana and Manahil aim to add more clarity to the factors that impact an employee’s experience during digital transformation initiatives, specifically in public institutions. Their...
by Kelsey Azmitia | Dec 4, 2021 | Lab Updates
One of our UI/UX research teams is studying the design of ‘Social Travel Platforms’. They began their work by studying a new and promising social travel application, Tramigo, a San Diego based startup. Tramigo’s goal is to extend genuine connections amongst travelers...
by Kelsey Azmitia | Nov 22, 2021 | Lab Updates
Focusing on the limitations and challenges of advancing digital innovation in small-medium enterprises (SMEs), Liliann Andrade and Vincent Tran conduct a systematic literature review centered around the key dynamics and determinants of digital intrapreneurship from...
by Kelsey Azmitia | Nov 12, 2021 | Lab Updates
Employees are neither costs nor assets but change agents in digital transformation. Emma Tsztoo works on a project that examines the role of operational employees in the implementation and governance of digital transformation. Emma is in her 4th-year undergraduate...
by Kelsey Azmitia | Nov 10, 2021 | Lab Updates
Human Error is still the No. 1 cause of data breaches. Tackling this challenge, Claire strives to offer a new framework and set of guidelines for companies’ cybersecurity and risk initiatives. Her current research is grounded in employees’ cognitive, social,...
by Kelsey Azmitia | Aug 29, 2021 | Lab Updates
With an increasing demand for entrepreneurship education platforms (EEP), Francezca Dagoc, Vanessa Roy, Elijah Nobis, and Kaveh Abhari offer a UX design framework and a set of guidelines for an entrepreneurship education platform. Their research highlights the...
by Kelsey Azmitia | Aug 27, 2021 | Lab Updates
As digital technology arises as an essential part of modern-day life, it is critical that users maximize the value of digital technology while avoiding negative consequences. Melissa Klase, Oliver Connors, and Kaveh Abhari emphasize digital mindfulness...
by Kelsey Azmitia | Aug 23, 2021 | Lab Updates
As digital technology arises as an essential part of modern-day life, it is critical that users maximize the value of digital technology while avoiding negative consequences. Melissa Klase, Oliver Connors, and Kaveh Abhari emphasize digital mindfulness while proposing...
by Kelsey Azmitia | Aug 13, 2021 | Lab Updates
Learn about Ivan Demetrio Ortiz Sandoval’s work-in-progress on Digital Entrepreneurs’ personality traits. This study identified four key groups of digital entrepreneurs with different personality traits: visioners, inventors, builders, and...
by Kelsey Azmitia | Aug 13, 2021 | Lab Updates
‘Employees First’: The Relationship between Employee Experience Management Systems and Customer Experience Management One of our papers at #AMCIS 2021; Best Paper nominee, Top 25% AMCIS Paper; thanks to Arsham Sanavi, Jennifer Ly, and Marina...
by Kelsey Azmitia | Aug 13, 2021 | Lab Updates
We’re happy to share that our paper, ‘Toward a Theory of Digital Mindfulness: A Case of Smartphone-based Self-monitoring,’ has received the best paper award from HCI International 2021. Congratulations and thanks to our current and former...
by Kelsey Azmitia | Aug 6, 2021 | Lab Updates
We’re happy to share that our paper, ‘Toward a Theory of Digital Mindfulness: A Case of Smartphone-based Self-monitoring,’ has received the Best Paper Award of the 8th International Conference on HCI in Business, Government and Organizations, HCI...
by Kelsey Azmitia | Jul 24, 2021 | Lab Updates
Do you know 75% of a user initial imprecision of an online business is based on user interface design? or 70% of digital platforms fail due to a bad user experience?As of September 1st, 2021, Digital Innovation Lab at San Diego State University is proud to offer...
by Kelsey Azmitia | May 22, 2021 | Lab Updates
Exploring Connectivist Teaching models in K-12, Nohea Behler has set out to investigate the challenges that Hawaiʻi’s middle school teachers have faced over the past year during the COVID-19 pandemic and how they have navigated these challenges using digital...
by Kelsey Azmitia | May 21, 2021 | Lab Updates
Focusing on how reflections authorize a more intelligent use of technology, the Digital Mindfulness team explores the various ways digital mindfulness can reach digital technology’s full potential. The team expands on IT mindfulness theory by blending that with the...
by Kelsey Azmitia | May 21, 2021 | Lab Updates
Open innovation (OI) platforms allow innovation seekers to harvest the creative capacity of the crowd and develop their new product and service concepts. Yet, these platforms typically fall short in offering a robust user experience. Our UI/UX research team is...
by Kelsey Azmitia | May 21, 2021 | Lab Updates
Focusing on Design Entrepreneurship Education Platforms (EEP), one of our UI/UX teams, led by Francezca Dagoc investigates user experience on EEP to offer a new UX design framework for these platforms. The project has assessed the relationships between crucial...
by Kelsey Azmitia | May 20, 2021 | Lab Updates
Studying the psychological motivations behind self-service analytics, the Self-Service Analytics team (SSA) has identified the unique psychological needs that drive SSA usage. These needs include autonomy, competence, relatedness, having a place, and self-realization....
by Kelsey Azmitia | May 14, 2021 | Lab Updates
Redefining the limits of Open Innovation, Nan Su and Summer McGuckin conduct a systematic literature review on the downsides of openness. By examining the different models of open innovation from Open Source to Social Product Development, the team hopes to develop...
by Kelsey Azmitia | May 7, 2021 | Lab Updates
The Digital Entrepreneurs team strives to “profile” digital entrepreneurs based on their personality traits and the operational dimensions of digital entrepreneurship. By identifying the four key groups of digital...
by Kelsey Azmitia | May 2, 2021 | Lab Updates
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced higher education institutions to rethink the current education system. The pandemic has revealed that greater value must be placed on the student’s self-regulated learning experiences rather than instructional practices. DiLab’s...
by Kelsey Azmitia | Apr 29, 2021 | Lab Updates
Going above and beyond marketing, the CEM/CXM team, or Customer Experience Management team, focuses on customer equity’s direct and indirect effects by understanding how crucial customer information systems are in supporting customer experience management. The...
by Kelsey Azmitia | Apr 29, 2021 | Lab Updates
Making medical errors, is the third leading cause of death in the United States, with 251,000 deaths annually. DiLab members, Guillermo Gonzalez and Brenda D are researching self-monitoring technologies to address this issue. As part of this...
by Kelsey Azmitia | Apr 28, 2021 | Lab Updates
By cultivating Data Literacy to drive Digital Transformation, the “Data Swagger” team* strives to introduce more efficient paths to meet organizational strategic goals. The team is developing an experience-centered, reflection-driven, and cooperative approach to...
by Kelsey Azmitia | Apr 28, 2021 | Lab Updates
Why is it that 84% of Digital Transformations are failing? Why do only half of all digital initiatives reach the values promised during their creation? Why do only 18% of companies rate their use of digital technology as “very effective”? Why do businesses fail...
