A Guide to PhD Graduate School: How they keep score in the big leagues. In JM Darley, MP Zanna & HLI Roedinger (eds.), The Compleat Academic: A Career Guide (pp. 3-15). Washington DC: American Psychological Association
David Patterson: How to Have a Bad Career in Research . Printed 2/11/02 at CRA Academic Careers Workshop in Washington DC
matt.might.net: 10 ways to fail a PhD (I don't agree with everything he says, esp. the fail rate, but there is some very good advice in there).
Jason Hong's thoughts on breaking away from the undergrad mentality
Learn about course goals, what makes grad school different from undergraduate
Read Turabian Chapter 1: What Research Is and How Researchers Think About It
Read Turabian Chapter 2: Moving from a Topic to a Question to a Working Hypothesis
Read "How to Read an Article" and "How to Summarize a Research Paper"
Find Articles Assignment (due before class).
Carpenter, S. (2007, July 20). To Choose an Adviser, Be an "Armchair Anthropologist". Science.
Zanna, M. P., & Darley, J. M. (2004). Mentoring: Managing the faculty–graduate student relationship. In J. M. Darley, M. P. Zanna & H. L. I. Roedinger (Eds.), The Compleat Academic: A Career Guide (2 ed., pp. 117-131). Washington DC: American Psychological Association.
Reis, R. M., & Society, I. E. (1997). Tomorrow's professor: Preparing for academic careers in science and engineering: NY:IEEE Press. (Choosing a dissertation advisor/postdoc supervisor, p. 118-123). Optional: Read the remainder of Chapter 5 ( Research as a Graduate Student and Post Doc)
"Working Effectively with Graduate Assistants" -- Nyquist/Wulff, Sage Publications, 1996: Chapters 3 & 6 (In Dropbox)
PhD Comics Take:
Take a look at the FAQ for this class and find at least one other relevant link to post to the class discussion list.
As an exercise surrounding this panel, identify a set of actions you will take to find out more about potential research advisors. By Sept 10, you should have gathered data/interviewed at least three members of the HCII as potential advisers.
Either Technology and Courage (Ivan Sutherland) IN DROPBOX or Hamming: You and Your Research
Hudson & Mankoff (2013). Concepts, Values and Methods for Technical Human-Computer Interaction Research. Chapter in Ways of Knowing in HCI (Wendy Kellogg & Judith S. Olsen, Ed). Read beginning through end of section 2.2. IN DROPBOX.
Optional Readings
Engelbart, D.C. Augmenting human intellect: A Conceptual Framework (1962)
Licklider, J.C.R. Man-Computer Symbiosis (1960)
Sutherland, I. Sketch pad a man-machine graphical communication system (1964)
Read Developing your conceptual framework and significance statement -- Writing Successful Proposals, Friedland & Folt, Chapter 4. IN DROPBOX
Read Turabian CH. 13 (Presenting Research in Alternative Forums)
Optional: From Idea to Science: Ars Technica series on How Science Happens
Presentations by 2nd and 3rd year students who wish to work closely with a first year student on a research project
For each presentation, answer the Heilemeier Questions
Read: Hargatti (2011): From Review to Publication
Write: A powerpoint for the proposal you liked best laying it out in more depth [according to the slides from last week]
Bring: A CHI submission to talk about
Turabian Section 3.4 of Chapter 3: Evaluating Sources for Relevance and Reliability: nice summary of how to skim
Turabian Chapter 4: Engaging Sources
Harvey, M. (2010). What is a Literature Review? Unpublished manuscript, Carnegie Mellon University Library.
Lantsoght: How to handle a large amount of literature. Blog post. 2011. Emphasizes the need for speed reading and organization tactics.
JediPHD: Guest Post: How to Get Your Literature Review to Write Itself. Blog post. Gets you to the point of thematic organization very quickly.
Literature Survey assignment : First piece due before class today
Hear faculty talk about/propose research; fill out Heilemeier Questions while they talk
Read related papers: Kraut, R. E., & Fiore, A. T. (2013). The role of founders in building online groups CSCW'13: Proceedings of the ACM conference on computer-supported cooperative work and social media. New York: ACM. IN DROPBOX
Read "The Research Methods Knowledge Base: 3rd edition" by William M.K. Trochim and James P. Donnelly. IN DROPBOX
McGuire, W. J. (1997). Creative hypothesis generating in psychology: Some useful heuristics. Annual Review of Psychology, 48(1), 1-30
Optional: Cohen: The Earth Is Round (p<.05) (1994)
Optional:
Ellis, T. J., & Levy, Y. (2008). Framework of problem-based research: A guide for novice researchers on the development of a research-worthy problem. Informing Science: International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 11, 17-33.
Research Foundations (Chapter 1) IN DROPBOX
Project meeting (10:30-11:30): Have a prepared answer to the Heilemeier Questions
Hear faculty talk about/propose research; fill out Heilemeier Questions while they talk
Read: Expectation and Purpose: Understanding Users’ Mental Models of Mobile App Privacy through Crowdsourcing
Prepare and present a 15-minute talk on a theme in your literature review. Please add your talks to the "13-Presentations" folder in the class dropbox. We'll be critiquing both the style (your presenting and your slides) and the substance (content and how you organize it) of the talk in class. We may also be videotaping your presentation so you can see yourself presenting (scary but incredibly useful). My goal is to have you all give EXCELLENT academic talks by the end of this class. The following are wonderful resources to prepare an excellent talk:
Giving an academic talk (Jonathan Shewchuck)
How to Give an Academic Talk v4.0 (Paul N. Edwards)
(date may change: hopefully Teri Reiche from IRB will attend)
You must have completed Human Subjects Training before this class. Take the course, "Social & Behavioral Research - Basic/Refresher, Basic Course."
Due by 10/1: IRB Critique
Long term assignment: Write a human subjects application for your project (due 10/14 to Teri)
Zimmerman '07: Zimmerman, J., Forlizzi, J., and Evenson, S. (2007). Research through design as a method for interaction design research in HCI. CHI07 Proceedings. New York, NY: ACM Press, 493-502.
Optional: Buchanen -- Wicked Problems. IN DROPBOX
Project meeting: Progress report + an updated answer to Heilmeier Questions
Revised lit survey due.
Readings still due:
Turabian, K. L., A manual for writers of research papers, theses and dissertations. (Chapter 5: Planning your argument, pp 48-61)
Booth, W. C., Colomb, G. G., & Williams, J. M. (2003). The craft of research: University of Chicago press. (Chapters 3 & 4)
One goal of this course is to help you develop a strong fellowship application, and use this as an opportunity to learn about how to frame research well and write research well. What makes for a good fellowship application? What is a personal statement for? How can you address the broader impact and diversity requirements? We will critique past examples of fellowship applications
Great detailed read: http://www.pgbovine.net/fellowship-tips.htm
Lot of tips: http://djstrouse.com/guide-to-applying-to-us-science-phd-programs-and-fellowships/
Some good links and example apps here: http://www.alexhunterlang.com/nsf-fellowship
More good links: http://www.jenniferwang.org/nsf.html
NSF-specific advice: http://newport.eecs.uci.edu/~christoh/nsfadvice.pdf
Project meeting: Progress reprot + an updated answer to Heilmeier Questions
Discussion and Critique of your Human Subjects submissions.
* IRB panel, run by Teri Reiche (Tue, 19-Oct) BRING 3 copies of FINAL IRB for review TO CLASS
SUBMIT 9am of 10/14 to Teri treiche [at] andrew dot cmu dot edu
FINAL version monday the 21st at noon.
REVIEW back by about 26th.
Bring a draft of your Funding Application to class for critique
Project meeting: Progress report + an updated answer to Heilmeier Questions
Hear faculty talk about/propose research; fill out Heilemeier Questions while they talk
Read related papers [tbd]
Bring a revised draft of your Funding Application to class for critique
[start Time Journal ~ Monday 11/4 (see 11/14 class)]
We'll discuss and iterate on ways to talk about your research. Bring a 5 second, 30 second and 2 minute elevator pitch for your research and be prepared to give and improve them.
http://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/1779/what-are-the-elements-of-an-effective-elevator-pitch
Readings:
Benos, Kirk & Hall (2003) "How to Review a Paper"
How to Review (for CHI)
Instructions for Reviewers is a modified version of the actual instructions sent to CHI ACs in 2010. I kept it as similar as possible except that the dates correspond to our class timeline.
Select two papers each (two people per paper) by end of class today.
Pausch, R. (2007). Time management video. University of Virginia. Charlottesville, VA. Retrieved from http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2750363533451832628#docid=-5784740380335567758
Covey, S. R. (2004). Seven habits of highly effective people: Free Pr. (Read the one page descriptions of each "habit" and/or read the Wikipedia synopsis)
Gollwitzer, P. (1999). Implementation intentions: Strong effects of simple plans. American Psychologist, 54(7), 493-503.
CMU's scheduling and planning resources
Complete a time-diary, using a format similar to the one that Jen Mankoff used in this sample. Complete the diary for at least four full days. Columns should be main projects and or goals you have and rows should be 30 minute blocks for the day. Write a short (1-3 page) report on what this behavioral sample says about your time management. Are you spending time on your priorities? Are you interrupting yourself or others? Are you concentrating your activities? Do you know when you are doing what activities? Your report should include a plan for one of the problems you identified in your time management.
Optional reading (Some of science relevant to the Pausch and Covey bromides)
Bandura, A. (1982). Self-efficacy mechanism in human agency. American psychologist, 37(2), 122-147.
Collaboration
http://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/2707/how-should-a-phd-student-approach-a-collaboration
http://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/271/how-to-achieve-successful-collaborations
Conferences
http://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/223/how-can-i-get-the-most-out-of-conferences
http://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/2570/making-time-to-catch-up-with-people-at-a-conference
http://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/2300/how-does-one-maintain-academic-contacts
http://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/1944/how-to-invite-yourself-to-present-at-another-university
http://sidsavara.com/personal-productivity/how-to-to-network-at-conferences
A recreation of the PC experience. Complete the Mock PC Assignment
* Mock PC meeting (Thu 18-Nov) -- Assignment
http://interactions.acm.org/blog/view/no-place-for-hobbits
Required:
The lab: Avoiding Research Misconduct (watch the movie; pick one role (at a minimum) and work through it).
Dante: The Shadow Scholar: The man who writes your students' papers tells his story (2010)
Fine, M. A., & Kurdek, L. A. (1993). Reflections on determining authorship credit and authorship order on faculty-student collaborations. American Psychologist, 48(11), 1141.
Reis, R. M., & Society, I. E. (1997). Tomorrow's professor: Preparing for academic careers in science and engineering: IEEE Press. Chapter 13: Professional responsibilities. (in DropBox)
Optional:
Mankoff, J. (2006). Applying ethics to the practice, research, and teaching of Human Computer Interaction.
Friedman, B., Kahn Jr, P. H., & Borning, A. (2006). Value sensitive design and information systems. Human-computer interaction in management information systems: Foundations, 6, 348-372.
Review Turabian 7.9
"ACM's plagiarism Policy"
http://www.apastyle.org/authorship.html (also available here)
"Determining Authorship"
Reis, R. M., & Society, I. E. (1997). Tomorrow's professor: Preparing for academic careers in science and engineering: IEEE Press. Chapter 4: Your professional preparation strategy.
Slaughter (2012) Why Women Still Can't Have it All
Optional: Welsh: How to get a faculty job part 1 (the application) and part 1b (how to get an interview) and part 2 (how to nail the interview)
Career options (Thu, 11-Nov)
* What to expect from the student evaluation meeting / Finishup of ethics lecture / Time management revisit (Tue, 30-Nov)
* Debriefing (Thu, 2-Dec)
CUT: * Project Proposal Presentations NSH 3305 (Thu, 16-Sep) Individual Written Proposal Due Today