Course Schedule
| Week | Date | Topics | Notes |
| Week 1 | Aug 20 | Research Methods for Informatics and Computing Fall 2012 A: Introduction |
slides |
| Aug 22 | Lecture 2: Introduce research possibilities | docx | |
| Week 2 | Aug 27 | Lecture 3: Refine and Confirm Assignments | |
| Aug 29 | Lecture 4: Initial in class team research | ||
| Week 3 | Sept 3 | Labor Day | |
| Sept 5 | Lecture 6 finish lecture | slides | |
| Week 4 | Sept 10 | Giving and receiving effective feedback, a brief description of characteristics of effective teams (slides). Handouts: Tuckman’s model for group development (pdf) and the 3 P’s assessment tool for teams (docx). | slides, pdf, docx |
| Sept 12 | In class Project work | ||
| Week 5 | Sept 17 | Initial Student Presentations | |
| Sept 19 | Initial Student Presentations Continued | ||
| Week 6 | Sept 24 | Team work | |
| Sept 26 | Team work | ||
| Week 7 | Oct 1 | Professor Kay Connelly "Health Informatics Research including how to do Surveys" | |
| Oct 3 | Professor Yong-Yeol Ahn "Introduction to Network Science Research" | slides | |
| Week 8 | Oct 8 | Professor Jeffrey Bardzell "What is HCI Research?" | slides |
| Oct 10 | Team work | ||
| Week 9 | Oct 15 | Team work | |
| Oct 17 | Midterm Presentations | ||
| Week 10 | Oct 22 | Midterm Presentations | |
| Oct 24 | Team Work | ||
| Week 11 | Oct 29 | Tony Reilly presentation on Group Dynamics and Feedback | |
| Oct 31 | Team work | ||
| Week 12 | Nov 5 | Maureen Biggers on Designing a Poster | doc, slides |
| Nov 7 | Team work | ||
| Week 13 | Nov 12 | Team work | |
| Nov 14 | Jean Camp What is This Research Thing Anyway? | slides | |
| Week 14 | Nov 19 | Break | |
| Nov 21 | Break | ||
| Week 15 | Nov 26 | Graduate Student Panel | |
| Nov 28 | Final Presentations I | ||
| Week 16 | Dec 3 | Final Presentations II | |
| Dec 5 | Poster |
