Notes Trying to port notes from Word to txt to blog remember to put Spotlight comments on documents for field prelim; comments must include “fieldprelim” in order to show up in the smart folder of readings Poetry in Motion data need to get mySQL access sorted out at SI took NVivo training on 3/16/06;...
Read more →Interviewing context: in qualitative methods class, talking about our experiences piloting interviews choosing recording, transcription, etc. should be methodological – can’t really do qualitative coding on interviewing notes; best way for those is transcription from recording question order – make sure you ask everyone a small set and whatever else you get to audio...
Read more →Guests: Judy Olson, some other guy in a green fleece Notes about PIM research: Forks poetry faculty Ann Brown – article in learning sciences Cobb – Ed Researcher 2003 Intervention – for psych like treatment Eric’s question: isn’t this like HCI? Barry’s answer: yeah, pretty much Priti: figuring out what counts as a small...
Read more →Stuff to think about: 1:1 chats, social, work, coordination, interruption what about emotion, sarcasm, stuff you don’t want logged feature creep, federation Systems on the web: Babble – from IBM, designed for small, defined workgroups http://www.research.ibm.com/SocialComputing/babble.htm Adium – tabbed multi-client IM for Mac examples from logs: Adrienne Sat Jan 21 Ben on Yahoo Wed...
Read more →Glaser and Strauss Blank slate – how much literature should you know before starting your research project? How should lit review inform development of categories and properties? Hypothesis proving – not really the activity here; goal is really to generate theory (explanation of categories and their relationships) Theoretical sampling – discover categories and their...
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