Hello All!

Kerwell and I (in conjunction with Ashley, Laura in New York City and Xuan in China) are examining distributed collaboration between faculty and researchers on Cornell's Ithaca campus and doctors at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York.

This week I received a crash course in ethnographic research methods, brought myself up to date on the previous article published as well as the VOSS proposal.

I read and took notes on all the transcripts of the interviews Laura and Xuan conducted, and transcribed one of Xuan’s interviews.

Finally, I spent some quality time with the survey data collected before and after collaborator retreats held in Ithaca and Scranton, PA. I entered the data into spreadsheets that Xuan had started. This project took me a lot longer than I expected, reinforcing the “doctor’s have terrible handwriting” stereotype. I modified the spreadsheet formatting so they were not only as clear as possible to read but also more conducive to data analysis.

During our project team meeting yesterday I created a rather snazzy list of important dates, long and short term goals, and contact information to guide our work this summer. My upcoming tasks include putting together a codebook and summary tables for the survey data, begin scheduling local interviews, and familiarizing myself with the interview protocol.

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend!