I was one of a dozen UCLA Creative Lab Spring 2020 Leads. I thought of an app that would help people find music specific to their needs, on a musically detailed level. Yes, there are a million AI generated playlist to keep you listening til the end of time, but this is one of the only customizable to you products for music discovery!
Many different tools were actually used to create this. My friend Carolyn did a {study} for this to help us determine how people choose their music. We then created the prototype in Figma, then made all the 3d models in Blender, and started writing the front-end in React. Within React we used Three.JS, Typerwriter, Spotify API.
I graduated in 2020 with an undergraduate degree in Psychology. It has shown me the love for mind and the potentials of learning from it. I also noticed that my favorite video game, Minecraft, has had a huge following in the past few years. The idea of it becoming a virtual space for concerts and other events made me wonder if I can run psychological experiments inside it.
I had a basic understanding of Java because of old college classes, but had to dive into the Spigot API. To utilize it, it required a better understanding of Java. After creating plugins that will run the experiment inside of a Minecraft server running Spigot 1.16, I setup an SQL database that would receieve all the information had for our dependent variables. This data was then used to create a leaderboard on a React webpage and also used to create a script in CRAN "R" that would analyze the data. The data would then be presented in different forms of graph that are placed back onto a React webpage.