Publications and Presentations¶

Journal Publications¶

Humans create more novelty than ChatGPT when asked to retell a story
Fritz Breithaupt, Ege Otenen, Devin R. Wright, John K. Kruschke, Ying Li, and Yiyan Tan
Breithaupt, Otenen, Wright, and Kruschke are equal first authors
Scientific Reports 14, 875 (2024). link

An Autonomous Discord Bot to Improve Online Course Experience and Engagement: Lessons Learned Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
Devin Robert Wright, Tim Severance, Charles D. Knutson, Jonathan L. Krein, Tyler D. Buchanan.
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T), Maui, Hawaii, January 4-7, 2022 link pdf

Sameness Entices, but Novelty Enchants in Fanfiction Online (Version 2)
Elise Jing, Simon DeDeo, Devin Robert Wright, Yong-Yeol Ahn
arXiv. link

Exploring the Impact of Factually Erroneous Cultural Mental Models on Community Understanding (Poster)
Devin R. Wright
9th Biennial Meeting of the International Association for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Sciences of Religion 2024. Oxford, United Kingdom. June 28-30, 2024.

Man vs. Machine: What ChatGPT Reveals about Human Memory, Emotion, and Creativity in the Serial Reproduction of Stories

Ege Otenen, Devin Robert Wright, Yiyan Tan, John Kruschke, Ying Li, and Fritz Breithaupt
(All authors contributed equally.)
Midwest Cognitive Science Conference 2023. Grand Rapids, Michigan. May 7-9, 2023. link

Using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to Identify Trends in Flight Software Patch History

Devin Robert Wright, Gerardo E. Cruz-Ortiz (Mentor)
NASA Virtual Intern Symposium, Summer 2021. Virtual–Greenbelt, Maryland, Aug 10, 2021 pdf
Constructing an Assembler and Virtual Machine (Poster)

Devin Robert Wright, Curtis Ray Welborn (Mentor)
National Conference on Undergraduate Research 2021@home. Virtual, April 13, 2021 link pdf
Constructing an Assembler and Virtual Machine

Devin Robert Wright, Curtis Ray Welborn (Mentor)
Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research 2021, hosted by Brigham Young University. Virtual–Provo, Utah, February 19, 2021.

Improving Plan Specification Language Usability and Applying Language to Model Autonomous Interplanetary Communications (Poster)

Devin Robert Wright, Jeremy Frank (Mentor), Michael Dalal (Supervisor)
Ames Virtual Intern Poster Symposium and Exit Presentation Series, August 2020. Virtual–Mountain View, California, Aug 5, 2021. pdf