Conducting Interviews

Last week Julia and I successfully conducted two interviews on campus. The interviewees couldn't have had more different things to say about distributed collaborations. One seemed to have the process down pat and had multiple successful collaborations; the other found it immensely frustrating to even initiate collaborations. All in all I think we've gathered some good data for the study.

Other than that, I've transcribed more interviews and am finishing up the anonymizations of existing interviews. Also, the potluck was delicious!

In other random news, it's 83% humid outside. Walking up West Campus and then the Slope was not fun this morning.

Handy exam trick: when you know the answer but not the correct derivation, derive blindly forward from the givens and backward from the answer, and join the chains once the equations start looking similar. Sometimes the graders don't notice the seam.