I’m just getting my lab at IIT up and running. We are now the CaSM Lab (Collaboration and Social Media), and I invite you to learn more about us on our website. In just the first two months, I’ve been joined by two master’s students and one undergraduate. Many of our efforts will focus...
Read more →All of my research is collaborative. Even on my “own” projects, I rely on others to help me polish drafts of publications and usually to talk about my data. Getting my colleagues that data is harder than it ought to be. Usually, my data consist of interview transcripts, interview audio recordings, video recordings, and...
Read more →Dr. Libby Hemphill and Dr. Stephanie Teasley of the University of Michigan, School of Information invite you to be a part of a research study that examines the experiences and preferences of post doctoral researchers (postdocs). The purpose of the study is to understand the kinds of experiences postdocs have and to design better...
Read more →I wrote a memo for myself in which I develop analogies between television shows that involve collaborative science work and my own research on geographically distributed science teams. My goal is to use popularized science to get us to think differently about our own research. I use examples from the forensics drama Bones and...
Read more →On August 13, I successfully defended my dissertation. Today, I submitted my final, approved version to University of Michigan’s institutional repository. That version won’t be available until after I receive my degree in December, but you’re welcome to read a nearly identical version of my complete dissertation. Dissertation Abstract In our efforts to understand...
Read more →People keep asking me what I’m working on now that I’ve defended my dissertation and moved to Arizona State. The answer is, “research!” More specifically, I’m working on a research project to understand and improve the experience of joining a virtual organization. My colleagues, Erik Johnston and Stephanie Teasley, and I are studying post...
Read more →I’m starting a new research project on which I collaborate with two other people, one in Ann Arbor, MI and one in Phoenix, AZ. We use Macs and PCs. We have no budget for software. We’re likely to have a bunch of qualitative data to keep track of and share. My first task is...
Read more →Choosing a tool or set of tools to use when collaborating presents many challenges. Will my colleagues be willing to get yet another login? Will we use just email for communication, or should we make sure some IM or audio is available? How will we share documents? All the systems included here allow you...
Read more →A couple weeks ago, my advisor counseled me to make the research statement I was writing for a job application “more manifesto-y.” A few days later, we elected Barack Obama President of the United States, spurring at least one manifesto . This week I have watched an embarrassing number of...
Read more →Stephanie Teasley, Erik Johnston, and I teamed up this spring to propose a study of post-docs joining virtual science teams. NSF awarded us funding at the full amount this week. Our project kicks off this September and runs through (at least) August 2010. I’m very excited about this project. To read more about it,...
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