QaD Review: reflection
There are my answers.
How did you get to the 20 most important concepts? Briefly describe the process and the underlying rationale. After choosing 20 most important articles, I opened each of them and tried to recall the reason why it was so relevant for me. Identification of article’s topic was really helpful as well as asking questions like: “What did they found?” “What was the purpose of research?” I checked also abstract and keywords once again and then, based on found information, defined related concepts. Sometimes I tended to generalize because e.g. “development of application” is not the concept in my opinion. I think this is quite quick and efficient way how to do this.
What was the overall experience of the QnD Review? QnD Review is really useful. I would recommend it for quick overview of field, current methods and topics not only in HCI. I suppose I will use this method to find my master thesis or research topic. However, for me personally it was more difficult to manage this task. During my studies I am focusing rather on deep (and slow to be honest) understanding so I spent a lot of time to convince myself to speed up and just skim. Formulation of sentences describing core idea took also a lot of time. On the other hand, at least it helped to think about it and sum it up.
Which are the two most interesting papers you would like to read more deeply? (Provide the full citation with DOI number, so that we can find the paper later)
DiSalvo, C., Lukens, J., Lodato, T., Jenkins, T., & Kim, T. (2014). Making public things: How HCI Design Can Express Matters of Concern. In: Proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '14. (pp. 2397-2406). New York, New York, USA: ACM Press. DOI: 10.1145/2556288.2557359.
Yu, L., Kittur, A., & Kraut, R. (2014). Distributed analogical idea generation: Inventing with Crowds. In: Proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '14. (pp. 1245-1254). New York, New York, USA: ACM Press. DOI: 10.1145/2556288.2557371.
How much time did you spend on this homework? It took me more than 20 hours. I have to admit that I got distracted sometimes and my later sickness did not help to finish it at all.
What was the most difficult part of this homework? I suppose that biggest challenge for me was staying focused and motivated to complete the work. I couldn’t complete more than 20 articles in one “session”. :(
How to make the quick and dirty review better? I encourage future students to do this task together. Sitting next to a partner and discussing findings and difficulties could be really useful. It should help also in preventing distraction. Writing paper’s core idea in one short sentence could be challenging in academia. What about summarization of results or keywords (minimum 5 per paper including topic, method, observed population/prototype etc.)?
Thank you for this task.