Yes, this isn’t exactly weekly at the moment. I’ve been pretty sick the past 2 weeks, although I’m not trying to make excuses. I am finally recovering, though.
During the past 2 weeks at PARC, I wrote and piloted an interview on information sharing practices in the workplace. From it, I created a survey that I [...]
Last week, I sent a “final” draft of my second year project proposal to my committee. I discussed the project with my advisors and in the second year project class where I continued to get valuable feedback. Most importantly, I am trying to be cautious about ascribing motivations to observed user behavior. Ed Hutchins suggested that I consider my data [...]
This past week I was busy getting situated at UCSD again. I spent a lot of time in meetings discussing my research, and I very nearly completed the written proposal. In fact, my goal for today (Monday) is to actually finish the proposal and send copies to my committee.
However, I have also been busy [...]
Taking Leif’s advice, I have decided to write a weekly status update. I will focus on the progress I made in the following week and maybe consider work I intend to do in the coming week. I’m hoping this will help me be honest about my work, keep me on track, and keep my advisors [...]
