FAQ

This is a place to collect advice on everything that one might need to know as a new PhD student here at CMU. Send me ideas/edits.

A wiki just for PhD students at CMU to share advice and experiences:

HCII PhD (https://sites.google.com/site/hciiphd/)

Topics: About; Advice; Planning; Reference;

Pittsburgh/Living; Stuff to do when you're new; Tech advice

Other advice (external to CMU)

* Advice on doing research

* Advice on writing about research

* Advice on presenting research

* Advice on finding related work

o How to figure out what articles are relevant to your work

o How to get access to articles that are not free

o How to read an article

o How to summarize an article

o Other sources of related materials you should consider