Required: Turabian, K. L., A manual for writers of research papers, theses and dissertations: Chicago style for students and researchers, Revised by Booth, W. C., Colomb, G. G., Williams, J. M. & University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff. The University of Chicago Press, 7th Edition
Recommended: Reis, R. M., Tomorrow's professor: Preparing for academic careers in science and engineering, IEEE Press
Also useful: https://www.amazon.com/Research-Chicago-Writing-Editing-Publishing/dp/022623973X/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=042JJ3YTFD3B5KPN0DAH
IMPORTANT: DO NOT BUY A HOLIDAY PLANE TICKET WITHOUT CONFIRMING THE DATE OF THE FINAL PRESENTATIONS WITH ME. ATTENDANCE IS REQUIRED.
Course work will be divided into discussions about the nature of interdisciplinary research in HCI in the context of enduring problems, as well as activities building specific skills, and a semester long group project experience. Some examples of specific topics include:
Examples of Interdisciplinary work in problem areas such as the social web, etc.
Differences and values
Example project(s)
Human subjects and IRB
Other selected ethics topics (e.g., authorship/credit, confidentiality, and conflict of interest in the review process)
Quick tour of methodologies
Publishing norms
Picking problems
Reward structure (tenure criteria as a model)
Literature Skills
Writing Skills
Organizing and motivating material
Research papers
Writing a proposal
Presentation skills
Introduction and background for the project theme
Individual proposals (written and presented)
Group proposals (written and presented)
Work on the projects proper
Ongoing critiques
Group final project results (written and presented)
Class materials including slides from presentations and readings will be posted on-line. Public materials are available on this website, private materials require that you are logged into the google group for the class.
Critiques and small writing assignments are used extensively in this class. See the Assignments page for information on larger assignments.
Individual assignments ~ 60%
Group assignments ~ 40%
2012 Syllabus (taught by Niki Kittur)
2011 Syllabus (taught by Bob Kraut)