05.11

Week of [05.02.11]

• [05.02.11]
  • election day
  • data entry into SPSS
  • descriptive analysis; graph building
  • HCI grad forum - RL's GRAND poster; networking for CHI

• [05.03.11]
  • meeting w/ JM + CT re: GRAND WIP presentation
    • too much text/details (i.e expt factors, # participants
    • take-away: motivation
    • more images
    • contribution at end; mixed methods approach; examples of quality in methods in both approaches
    • no outline slide
    • CT to send additional images from IMAGER slide deck
    • no captions needed
  • analysis of local results; JM sent KM's mixed design + analysis notes

• [05.04.11]
  • analysis of global results
  • MUX forum - CHI practice talks by MP (Now Where Was I? Physiologically-Triggered Bookmarks), MS (Cardiogram - VA for automotive engineers);

• [05.05.11]
  • GRAND WIP slide deck revisions (feedback from JM + CT)

• [05.06.11]
  • invited talk by Justine Cassel (justinecassel.com) (CMU HCI institute) - The Human at the Heart of our Work: Advancing Social Theory and Engineering Practice
    • Licklider - Brain-Computer Interfaces (c. 1960s)
    • small talk buffers face threats; task-talk;
    • ethnomethodology, social psychology
  • CSGSA elections / AGM
  • CHI SV bag stuffing

Week of [05.09.11]

• [05.09.11] - [05.12.11]
  • CHI 2011 @ VCC

• [05.12.11] - [05.14.11]
  • GRAND AGM @ VCC
  • GRAND WIP presentation
  • dinner meeting w/ TAGLab: RB, VP, KM
  • meeting w/ VP (TAGLab)
    • Rush Hour 6x6 tile game (visual-spatial reasoning), flanker task (reaction time)
  • meeting w/ KM re: stats
    • non-parametric stats for mixed designs [Wobbrock, Findlater 11] - CHI note
    • log transform time trials
    • trimmed means, outlier replacement; see [Moffatt 07] - ASSETS paper; steady bubbles paper; sphericity checks w/ Levene's test;
    • robust modern statistical methods: communications of ACM post by J. Robertson: http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/107125-stats-were-doing-it-wrong/fulltext alternative - report modes for questionnaire data
    • [Kaptein et al 10] CHI note;
    • alternative: report medians for non-parametric data

Week of [05.16.11]

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Week of [05.23.11]

• [05.23.11]
  • Victoria Day (holiday)

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