“A bend in the road is not the end of the road, unless you fail to make the turn”- Helen Keller Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a nice winter break. After meeting a few bends in the road at the end of last semester, I used the opportunity to put my […]

I’ve been doing a lot of reading over December and the Christmas break and when I review what I have read it all seems to converge around consciousness, how we think, the flawed assumptions of capitalism, AI and ethics. This was not an intentionally curated set of content, but it sort of took me on […]

Introduction A highly sensitive person (HSP) is a neurodivergent individual who is thought to have an increased or deeper central nervous system sensitivity to physical, emotional, or social stimuli.1 Some refer to this as having sensory processing sensitivity, or SPS for short. A sensitive nervous system makes it harder to filter out stimuli and easier to get […]

As I mentioned in my last blog post, I realize that the digital wave is leaving behind older people who deserve our attention as well. So I’ve been looking for this information for weeks. In order to learn how to study the acceptance behaviour of older people towards digital technology, in recent weeks I have […]

Here I have   The post tracking back my progress   From Now   All the way back to   Week 5…       What have I done…   I found it just super hard for me to keep this consistently as a weekly report as I realized I would sometimes overthink about what […]

As mentioned in the previous blog post, the impact of digital inclusive finance on the urban-rural income gap in China is an issue that I would like to further investigate. In order to investigate this issue, it is definitely necessary to read some relevant theories and literature. For example, Lewis first proposed the theory of […]

A few weeks ago, I had a call with Richard Banks from Microsoft Research in which I discussed my area of work and learned about the non-academic research environment. I was interested in whether the combination of my design background and my more recent approach and area of interest (being developed on this course) might […]

Project Identity When looking into more literature, I was able to discover some studies discussing public perception and teachers, namely, “Americans’ Views of Public School Teachers and Personnel in the Wake of COVID-19” by Doonan and Kenneally (2022).  Not only is this source recent and relevant, it asks a great deal of the questions that […]

A little late in posting this week: Though I have not fully come to a conclusion on what my final project will be, discussions with peers and through courses has helped to identify a good route for what my project will center around.  I believe I have officially settled on discussing the retention of teachers, […]

November turned into a busy month between classes and my own projects. Outside of these, much of what I wrestled with involved pivoting away from what I had initially thought I was focusing on (as mentioned in my Week 6-7 post) and going back to the drawing board. My Migration and Forced Displacement Intensive was […]