Please join us for the Applied Statistics Workshop (Gov 3009) this Wednesday, November 2 from 12.00 - 1.30 pm in CGIS Knafel Room 354. Amber Brown, Senior Research Scientist at Disney Research, and Joe Marks, Vice President and Fellow of Disney Research, will give a talk entitled "Empirical Social Science at Disney Research". As always, a light lunch will be provided.
The abstract for the presentation is:
At Disney Research we mostly work on technologies that are relevant to our various businesses: computer graphics, computer vision, robotics, human-computer interaction, materials, displays, etc. But we also have projects in the social sciences, with a heavy emphasis on rigorous empirical testing. We will describe four recent projects:
- Novel pay-what-you-want pricing mechanisms.
- Load balancing of park guests via pushed incentives on mobile devices.
- Guest participation in environmental programs.
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Introduction of a cinema culture to the developing world.