Hi,
  The draw is done. 5 participants win a $50 amazon gift card each. Contact with Dr. Zheng  (zheng@nmt.edu) ASAP.
  Here is the name list:

Andrea Sanchez

Jonathan Evans

Matthew Napolitano

Bridgette Aragon

Joe Stradling

Congratulations to you!

Hello,

We will start the draw 3:00 PM, Thursday, May 9, 2013 at Cramer 221, CS department seminar room.
Welcome to the site.


- NMT CREU Group.

IRB approval

Hello,

Today we received the approval of the New Mexico Tech IRB to proceed with the user study. Tomorrow we will have a meeting to discuss an appropriate location; hopefully we will have many participants, as this week is "dead week", when everything is due and such. I will update tomorrow on the proceedings of the meeting.

- Eunice.

All the Updates

Hello,

Last week the Student Research Symposium occurred in our school, where students presented their research. Danny and I presented a poster for our project; it was my first time presenting. I enjoyed it!


Nonetheless, after a week of filling out the correct forms and typing the process of the user study PLUS the affiliated papers, we got to submit our application to the IRB. Hopefully they will be able to review the documents and reply to us soon, as the semester is coming to a close. For now, Danny and I will be eagerly waiting for the approval.

Until then.
- Eunice.

Finishing Touches

Hey everyone!

As we come to the close of March, we have been coming closer and closer to the end of the design phase of  the user study. We have come up with and have almost finalized the entire user study. As predicted earlier we have not come up with a study that was going to take too much time as a convenience to the users who will participate in the study. The convenience to the users will not however come at a cost to the information that will be gathered by the study.

Keeping the study concise we believed will keep the users focused and answering the best way that reflects the way they truly feel versus merely answering question to get the study over with. Finalizing the user study and the methods to be used to conduct the study will not allow us to submit our IRB form in order to receive permission to conduct the user study since we will be using human participants.

Our next steps from now are to finish up the study in the next few days, submit the IRB for approval by our institution, and then move on to actually conducting the study.

Until next time.

-Daniel

Questionaire

Hello, hello,

As Danny mentioned, we have been working on the user study. Today we determined a few details about the questionnaire, for example

1. It should gather simple background information about the user
2. It will not be a lengthy survey
3. Appropriate wording will take a bit longer than determining the questions
4. We may give the several groups (control and the others) the same questionnaire

This week we will have a meeting with Dr. Zheng where we will discuss how to determine the effectiveness of the visuals. Hence, soon I will post more information on the questions that may be found in the survey. Till then.

- Eunice.

Itty Bitty Update

Hello,

Since coming back from Tapia we have been busy preparing for the user study. Recently, we have finished working on a Google Chrome browser extension that was really simple to implement after already having a javaScript file from the Firefox implementation. Using a simple .json configuration file, the Chrome extension was made to manipulate description pages of applications. Before the end of the school year you may be able to find this extension for download on the chrome web store.

The extension works the same way the GreaseMonkey script works in the Firefox browser. Later today we should be meeting to discuss the design of the survey. Until then!

-Daniel