Plan:

1. Setup Community Research & Design Blog
2. Send email requesting people to bring in issues to the group
3. Act on Second-Life ideas

Second Life Action Ideas

• Build a Second-Life Object that is an animation of a (statue) guy digging that says, “under construction”, and that comes with a location tracker (that is advertised, and the reason for including it given), that is openly copyable, and then look at where people do it, as a mini-research project for Richard
• Building a Second-Life Object that covers what you’re building in cloth, so nobody can see it, and then have a grand unveiling/grand opening

Stuff we want to accomplish:

• Encourage people to bring problems
• Talk more about mashup ideas
• Test-run the mashup tutorial materials
• Campus Webmasters web mashup brownbag
• Using the entrepreneurial design class as research opportunity — explore research methods, papers?
• SSD (Socio-technical Systems Design) Conference / laboratory / workshop
• ECSCW deadline
• Collaborative Design/Research by Blog
• Get Dan a PhD
• IRB boilerplate and form generator
• Help Richard develop small, intensive projects that are components or build together in order to help him start working toward his long-term, extended dissertation goals.
• Dedicated Research Communities who are defensive about what they do?
• Institutional structures get in the way of rapid research methods
• The holistic approach to understanding rapid research methods, and doing them
• Institutional Alsheimers versus assumed oral/practiced memory with no physical trace

• Second Life GPS?

I updated the Upcoming Deadlines links. I also created a new page:

Conferences of Interest

Check it out, add conferences I’ve forgotten, etc.

Ingbert

Need to update the 1998 paper on CSCW in Digital Libraries in preparation for i-Conference.

Invitation to IRB Staff to discuss application of IRB for GSLIS Research

Concrete plausible questions for clarification.

1. Talk to IRB about how they would like to work with GSLIS.
2. Talk to IRB about whether we can develop a larger scale permission for classes.
3. A system similar to Waikato, where complex things require a form, other types of testing requires IRB being aware of the work and receiving informal clearance to proceed. May require up front training and work.

Document requirements that are not explicitly required on the form. e.g.location of principal investigators.

How is IRB handled in other schools. May be an issue in faculty hiring. e.g. faculty may be attracted to institutions with cooperative IRB proceedures.

“wizard of oz” studies where software hasn’t been written yet.

Cameron has added a page to the Confluence wiki that will have example IRB forms attached.

Mike met with ACM president and faculty advisor and there was enthusiasm for a Scrapheap challenge. Need to find examples for information science. How would the contest be run. What kinds of challenges would interest both CS and LIS students.

Cosnider creating a panel of CSCW experts outside of UIUC to create the challenge.

Next week RSS

• how to manage feeds
• how do I pick feeds
• OPML and feed interoperability

Reference Software

• jabref
• CiteUlike

Edison is quoted in Millard (1990) as having said: “The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.”

I thought this was particularly appropriate given our discussion yesterday about IRB and getting rapid turn around on protocols. How would Edison fare if he had to deal with IRB? How can we get students (esp my own) to embrace this idea of rapid experimentation, rapid iteration?

Millard, (1990). Edison and The Business of Innovation, p. 40.

More brainstorming of meeting topics

Here are some more topics in addition to the ones we came up with last week for topics to discuss this semester/year.

• CSCW Boundaries
• Second-Life
  • A-Loft hotel in Second life
  • http://news.com.com/2300-1043_3-6104949-1.html?tag=ne.gall.pg
• Rapid evaluation techniques
  • Feedback from users
  • Benefits, limitations of various methods
• Incremental Learning
• Design in the “broad-sense” - beyond thinking about design on a computer or software design. “Socio-technical systems design”
  • Set of problems, questions, context, background

CHAMP - Cultural Heritage and Museum Practices

How can you do a series of qualitative, iterative studies?

Putting the ECSCW proceedings online.

Upcoming deadlines

• CHI Tutorials - September 1, 2006
• SIGCSE 2007 - September 8, 2006
• CSCW Workshop Submissions - September 15, 2006
• HICSS 2007 Revisions due - September 15, 2006
• Museums and the Web - September 30, 2006
• CHI Papers & Notes - September 29, 2006
• C&C 2007 - December 15, 2006

Scrapheap Challenge @ UIUC

• ACM/ASIS&T collab.
• Microsoft donate a “prize”?
• Beginning of next term?

Moving and organizing

• Confluence Wiki
• MikeWiki
• Design website
• Calendar?

IRB

• Generate a list of topics and questions to ask of IRB
• What topics/research ideas/etc are in the purvue of IRB
• Research - Human Subjects Research - Exempt - Not Research - Not HS Research
• Edge cases -
  • Editing
  • Usability interviews
  • Memoires?
  • Lived-research
  • Participant/researcher - post stuff on the web, to then be able to use it.
• Speed up process
• Did some stuff and in retrospect want to get it approved
• Rapid iteration, build-test-evaluate-build-test-eval-etc

Next Week, 31 August, 2006

• IRB
• RSS - different versions, etc.
• Aggregators

Currently we have decided to name our research group the Eclectic Design Research Group. The naming of this group, however, has been a never-ending saga, so do not be surprised if the name changes again. Originally, we called ourselves the CSCW Research Group (the Computer Supported Cooperative Work Research Group), for lack of a better name. But our topics of interest and topics of discussion have ranged far beyond what would traditionally be considered CSCW research. For example, we have discussed topics in knowledge management (KM), human-computer interaction (HCI), computer-mediated communication (CMC), social informatics (SI), and sociotechnical systems. One common theme of the group is our interest in design. Another common theme of the group is our interest in rapid, iterative methods. A third theme is our focus on what people actually do. Thus rapid prototyping and evaluation, scenario based design, participatory design, etc., are all topics which we recurringly address.

The reason for choosing the name, “Eclectic Design Research Group” is based on the first definition of the word in Merriam Webster’s Online dictionary:

“1: selecting what appears to be best in various doctrines, methods, or styles”

http://m-w.com/dictionary/Eclectic

Why? Because that is what we do. We do not believe in picking a single doctrine, field, method, approach, style, etc. Rather, we are constantly exploring new ideas, new methods, and new approaches to design, and always welcome new types of design projects. The purpose is to try to understand the nature of design, and to develop principles of design that are robust across different applications.

In any case, if you’ve got an idea for a better name for our group, feel free to email me: ifloyd2@gmail.com

Ingbert