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Consumer Experience Of Animal Crossing: New Horizons Players During Covid-19 Lockdowns, Raquel Holliday, David Rogers, Natalie A. Mitchell

Showcase of Osprey Advancements in Research and Scholarship (SOARS)

Project of Merit Winner

The Consumer Experience of Animal Crossing: New Horizons Players During COVID-19 Lockdowns Raquel Holliday, David Rogers, Dr. Natalie A. Mitchell Abstract Due to COVID-19 global lockdowns in March 2020, Nintendo’s spring release game, Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACHN), garnered massive popularity and unprecedented sales. The simulation game involves creating a new life on an island. As life events such as high school and college graduations, proms, weddings were cancelled, and consumers experienced anguish due to isolation, consumers took to ACHN to recreate the same life events within a digital world. Instant success led to broad acceptance …

Modeling Real Time Prices For Energy Markets, Kyle Cohen, Erin Byrd, Nhi Nguyen, Khanh Nguyen

Showcase of Osprey Advancements in Research and Scholarship (SOARS)

Wholesale power markets operate as both “day-ahead” and “real-time” markets, where transactions for power are placed a day before flow and an hour before flow, respectively. This project focuses on comparing models for predicting the price of the real-time market, using the PJM region as a case study. The real-time market is notoriously more volatile than its day-ahead counterpart, so the ability to predict the price of power on an hourly basis is extremely valuable for making decisions such as when and where to transact and when to hedge against volatility. Additional variables considered include temperature, power demand (load), generation …