Public Opinion on Ridesharing & Self-Driving Vehicles

Generated a research idea, designed a research plan, conducted the literature review, developed the conceptual model, designed the research survey, conducted the pilot study, modified the survey, collected data, conducted the statistical analysis, discussed the results and provided recommendations, presented the results in academic conferences, wrote a research paper and published. Specifically: - Investigated the motives for participation in situated ridesharing and riding a self-driving vehicle - Developed technology acceptance models - Developed scenario-based surveys for ridesharing and expected features survey for self-driving vehicles - Conducted Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Modeling analysis using SmartPLS - Provided recommendations to the ridesharing service providers, self-driving vehicle designers, and policymakers

Hypothesis Testing, Sentiment Analysis, Semantic Analysis, Trend Analysis, Tracking Consumer Sentiment, Opinion Mining, Web Data collection, and Topic Extraction, User research; Survey development, validation, distribution (Qualtrics), and analysis; SPSS; MS Excel; R; SmartPLS; Research report; IRB approval