Semester goals and objectives (Spring 2007)
Plan:
- Setup Community Research & Design Blog
- Send email requesting people to bring in issues to the group
- Act on Second-Life ideas
Second Life Action Ideas
- Build a Second-Life Object that is an animation of a (statue) guy digging that says, “under construction”, and that comes with a location tracker (that is advertised, and the reason for including it given), that is openly copyable, and then look at where people do it, as a mini-research project for Richard
- Building a Second-Life Object that covers what you’re building in cloth, so nobody can see it, and then have a grand unveiling/grand opening
Stuff we want to accomplish:
- Encourage people to bring problems
- Talk more about mashup ideas
- Test-run the mashup tutorial materials
- Campus Webmasters web mashup brownbag
- Using the entrepreneurial design class as research opportunity — explore research methods, papers?
- SSD (Socio-technical Systems Design) Conference / laboratory / workshop
- ECSCW deadline
- Collaborative Design/Research by Blog
- Get Dan a PhD
- IRB boilerplate and form generator
- Help Richard develop small, intensive projects that are components or build together in order to help him start working toward his long-term, extended dissertation goals.
- Dedicated Research Communities who are defensive about what they do?
- Institutional structures get in the way of rapid research methods
- The holistic approach to understanding rapid research methods, and doing them
- Institutional Alsheimers versus assumed oral/practiced memory with no physical trace
- Second Life GPS?