Friday, June 4, 2010

First Few Weeks

Over the past two weeks I've pretty much been getting myself acquainted with the distributed collaboration project. I started out by reading the project proposal and a related CSCW paper, as well as other papers that were referenced in order to get a feel for the theories upon which the project is based.

Additionally, I've read interview transcripts and done some reading on qualitative data analysis as well as clarified some things with Xuan, a partner on this project who handed over much of her previous work to us.

Finally, I transcribed three of Xuan's interviews and one and a half of Laura's (one of them is currently in progress; I'm tired of having silicone stuffed inside my ears and am taking a break from transcribing). Julia and I also attempted to provide some insight to students taking the summer COMM/INFO 2450 course. Hopefully we didn't just bore them!

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  1. Kerwell, I just wanted to thank you again for giving advice to the latest 2450 group. I'm sure it was valuable (though we'll find out today after their test).

    Good luck with the transcribing - nothing like that for learning how language really works.

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