Reinventing Research

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Reinventing Research

• Research Topics
• CS197 Thesis Class
• School Year 2005-2006

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The power of the mobile devices

• As a data gathering tool in naturalistic
  observation
• Voice to Text
• Enter Variables and Values
• Develop an interface to run apps for GSM modem
• Working programs that needs overhaul
• Start from scratch

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Understanding Human Networks

• Studying the interaction among members of a group
  leads to understanding groups
• RQs (Diagnostic Tools)
• Who are the people we talk to?
• For how long and how often?
• How actively do we participate in conversations?

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Understanding Human Networks

• Sociometer (Choudhury Pentland, 2002)
• Wearable sensor data combined with pattern
  recognition techniques

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Understanding Human Networks

• Understanding Content
• Understanding the Process
• Process Observation Analysis
• Participation, Communication, Influence, Styles
  of Influence, Decision Making, Group Atmosphere,
  Membership, Feelings, Norms, etc

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POA for the PDA

• Allows the PO to create a Sociogram

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Understanding Group Process through a sociogram

• Participation Who are high participators?
• Communication Who talks? For how long?
• Influence Which members are high in influence?
  What kind of influence?
• Decision making Does anyone attempt to
  summarize?
• Group Atmosphere Do people seem involved and
  interested?

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What should the system do?

• Enter person data
• Model location of person
• Record conversation
• Count the number of times the person speaks
• Report pattern of communication
• Eg. Person a? person b?person a? person c
• Report total number of minutes spoken
• Cue in I see data
• Raises hands up, taps pencil, twitches, etc.

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Understanding Human Networks

• Alternative device (Non PDA)
• That records
• I see
• I hear
• Records processes observed
• Allows one to create widely used diagrams and
  charts
• Generates report in POA format

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Understanding Content throughArchival Research
System (Arches)

• Scan textual data
• Use for qualitative research
• Available tools
• Nudist
• NVIVO

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Archival Research

• CWC (Complete Word Count)
• Categorizing (nouns, pronouns, verbs, subject,
  etc)
• Frequency count (raw and percentage) for each
  category
• Create themes and categories (attached to raw
  data)
• Model relationships between categories
• Identifying picture data in textual data

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Modeling themes
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My desktop
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Virtual Filing Cabinet

• Problem
• Endless back ups
• Endless archiving of data
• Endless folders
• Virtual Filing Cabinet / Spring Cleaning
• Add an icon on the desktop (the filing cabinet)
• Room full of filing cabinets
• Shows un-filed stuff on the floor
• Cleans up clutter on desktop by filing them
  properly in filing cabinet
• Sorts data into types and stores them in filing
  cabinet properly

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My Virtual Office

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Virtual Ethnography

• Reality Mining Understanding how people work,
  understanding culture
• Unobtrusive observer
• Tracing what people do in a network
• Keeping track of what people work on
• How long they work on something
• Desktop configuration