About Our Team
This is our team! Thank you for coming in to learn more about us. We are all graduate students at Georgetown University, where we study about communication, culture and technology. This semester we all took Fundamentals of Technology Course (CCT506) and joined our forces to explore and deblackbox metaverse and how it can impact the future of remote work. We all come from different backgrounds and really enjoyed this journey that made us new experts on metaverse. We hope exploring this web-site you were able to find answers to many questions you may have had about metaverse. ​
Huseyn Panahov is finishing his first year in the CCT program. He graduated from West Point Military Academy in 2012 with a bachelor of science degree in international relations and computer science concentration. For the past 10 years, I have worked in various roles doing research and analytics. Currently, he is managing editor of interdisciplinary scholarly journal Gnovis published by the CCT program.
Qi Yuan is a graduate student at Georgetown University in Communication, Culture and Technology program. She went to Penn State University for her bachelor degree, majoring in Communication, focusing on media effects. Her research focuses on political communication. Many of her dissertations have discussed how modern social media technology affects people's choices in politics. She is interested in how the propaganda and advertising work for the presidential election.
Zoe Chen Zhao is a first year student of Georgetown's CCT (Culture, Communication, & Technology) program. She graduated with a Bachelor degree in Cognitive Science from McGill University and minored in Communication Studies. Her focus right now is User Experience and she dedicates to transform complex systems into human-centric experiences. She is Passionate about human cognition, technology, and inclusivity.
Luis Castillo is a first-year student of the Communication, Culture, and Technology graduate program at Georgetown University. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Marketing at George Mason University and is currently a Project Manager for the Corporate Social Responsibility team at Navy Federal Credit Union. A guiding light for Luis in his professional career is employee engagement and using technology to further enhance productivity. He thoroughly enjoys impacting the culture of all the groups that he’s a part of by tailoring communication in a way that invokes others to see what’s possible through teamwork.
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We put a lot of thought into how to package and present our research and findings. We chose a video of nature landscape with a windmill for the website background, because it represents how technology can become a natural part of our lives. We chose blue as the primary color because we see the metaverse as a blue-sky vision for how culture and collaboration can be enhanced with the integration of this technology. Blue is also the official color of Georgetown University, where all project members study. We tried to emphasize simplicity and make the web-site easy for navigation.
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We know there is a lot of heavy research material in the texts of the web-pages, so we added many images and visual aids to make our findings more appealing and easier to consume. The images selected throughout are intended to represent hardware that can be integrated for a fully functional experience in the Meta and the helmet as protection of one’s privacy. Some of us used avatars in the about section to help portray how one would look like and see others when cruising in meta. We intended to represent our findings in a way that would entice organizations to consider adopting the meta to drive culture and their bottom line.