Research has examined both engineering demographics and factors improving or impeding diversity. However, media regularly emphasizes current lack of diversity in technology, while putting considerably less focus on specific actions to drive change. We will share some research data, as well as information about a number of initiatives to draw in young people - from elementary to college - who might otherwise never consider an engineering future, including: target demographic groups, what specifically each initiative is doing, and results. Learn how specific initiatives are making a difference – and what you can do to make a difference, too.
"UX for the win!" at #CityMash: how we did grounded theory coding of qualitat...Andrew Preater
Presented at the #CityMash Mashed Library unconference on 13 June 2015, comprising an overview of UX project work at Imperial College London Library Services plus an introduction to open coding and focused coding in grounded theory.
This informed a practical workshop session on qualitative data analysis where the group coded recordings of user experience testing interviews at Imperial.
Research has examined both engineering demographics and factors improving or impeding diversity. However, media regularly emphasizes current lack of diversity in technology, while putting considerably less focus on specific actions to drive change. We will share some research data, as well as information about a number of initiatives to draw in young people - from elementary to college - who might otherwise never consider an engineering future, including: target demographic groups, what specifically each initiative is doing, and results. Learn how specific initiatives are making a difference – and what you can do to make a difference, too.
"UX for the win!" at #CityMash: how we did grounded theory coding of qualitat...Andrew Preater
Presented at the #CityMash Mashed Library unconference on 13 June 2015, comprising an overview of UX project work at Imperial College London Library Services plus an introduction to open coding and focused coding in grounded theory.
This informed a practical workshop session on qualitative data analysis where the group coded recordings of user experience testing interviews at Imperial.
Slides from a workshop at the 2019 Service Design in Government conference, Edinburgh, March 2019.
The workshop challenged participants to consider:
what happens after you've done some user research for your service? Decisions made, do you move on and forget it? Or do you preserve that research for re-use and future team members? The session was an opportunity for user researchers in government to describe, compare and improve ResearchOps activities.
Women In Technology Day @ DERI, Galway, ireland.
Raising awareness on the gender gap in Technology: why we should care about it, which are the current causes and which have been the past ones.
Technology has all the right answers - but we have to start thinking about wh...Andy Tattersall
Technology has all the answers – but we have to start thinking about whether we’re asking the right questions
Technology disruption has impacted on the library and information profession more than most organisation sectors. It has created a wealth of opportunities to improve how we carry out our work, it has also brought with it a lot of threats and highlighted weaknesses. We now have a myriad of digital tools to help us help others but do we know what they really want given the wide choice of solutions? Within the learning technology community they never stray too far away from pedagogical theory as to why a technology is adopted to help with teaching. Library and information specialists need to take leaf from that book and ask questions when adopting a new tool for teaching, research and dissemination. In this presentation Andy will discuss some of those questions and hopefully give a few answers.
CILIP Conference 2019 - Digital innovation - Andy TattersallCILIP
Technology has all the answers – but we have to start thinking about whether we’re asking the right questions
Technology disruption has impacted on the library and information profession more than most organisation sectors. It has created a wealth of opportunities to improve how we carry out our work, it has also brought with it a lot of threats and highlighted weaknesses. We now have a myriad of digital tools to help us help others but do we know what they really want given the wide choice of solutions? Within the learning technology community they never stray too far away from pedagogical theory as to why a technology is adopted to help with teaching. Library and information specialists need to take leaf from that book and ask questions when adopting a new tool for teaching, research and dissemination.
#cilipconf19
Ten tips for creating a better survey - questions, process, and testing. Presented at UX Bristol, 15th July 2011.
This is an updated version of '10 tips for a better survey' presented at STC2011.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Slides to accompany Professor Andy McKinlay's workshop session "An introduction to discourse analysis" presented at DREaM Event 2.
For more information about this event, please visit http://lisresearch.org/dream-project/dream-event-2-workshop-tuesday-25-october-2011/
Slides from a workshop at the 2019 Service Design in Government conference, Edinburgh, March 2019.
The workshop challenged participants to consider:
what happens after you've done some user research for your service? Decisions made, do you move on and forget it? Or do you preserve that research for re-use and future team members? The session was an opportunity for user researchers in government to describe, compare and improve ResearchOps activities.
Women In Technology Day @ DERI, Galway, ireland.
Raising awareness on the gender gap in Technology: why we should care about it, which are the current causes and which have been the past ones.
Technology has all the right answers - but we have to start thinking about wh...Andy Tattersall
Technology has all the answers – but we have to start thinking about whether we’re asking the right questions
Technology disruption has impacted on the library and information profession more than most organisation sectors. It has created a wealth of opportunities to improve how we carry out our work, it has also brought with it a lot of threats and highlighted weaknesses. We now have a myriad of digital tools to help us help others but do we know what they really want given the wide choice of solutions? Within the learning technology community they never stray too far away from pedagogical theory as to why a technology is adopted to help with teaching. Library and information specialists need to take leaf from that book and ask questions when adopting a new tool for teaching, research and dissemination. In this presentation Andy will discuss some of those questions and hopefully give a few answers.
CILIP Conference 2019 - Digital innovation - Andy TattersallCILIP
Technology has all the answers – but we have to start thinking about whether we’re asking the right questions
Technology disruption has impacted on the library and information profession more than most organisation sectors. It has created a wealth of opportunities to improve how we carry out our work, it has also brought with it a lot of threats and highlighted weaknesses. We now have a myriad of digital tools to help us help others but do we know what they really want given the wide choice of solutions? Within the learning technology community they never stray too far away from pedagogical theory as to why a technology is adopted to help with teaching. Library and information specialists need to take leaf from that book and ask questions when adopting a new tool for teaching, research and dissemination.
#cilipconf19
Ten tips for creating a better survey - questions, process, and testing. Presented at UX Bristol, 15th July 2011.
This is an updated version of '10 tips for a better survey' presented at STC2011.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Slides to accompany Professor Andy McKinlay's workshop session "An introduction to discourse analysis" presented at DREaM Event 2.
For more information about this event, please visit http://lisresearch.org/dream-project/dream-event-2-workshop-tuesday-25-october-2011/
Забезпечення гарантій якості в системі вищої технічної освіти України. Пробл...LvivPolytechnic
Presentation: Забезпечення гарантій якості в системі вищої технічної освіти України. Проблеми, перспективи
Presented by: проф. Товажнянський Л.Л., ректор НТУ «ХПІ»
For: Ukrainian-Polish Forum «Technical Education for the Future of Europe»
Lviv, Ukraine, November, 6-9, 2014
Communication Skills in Science: Research in 4 minutes (Rin4)Aurelio Ruiz Garcia
DTIC Seminar February 2016. Communication Skills in Science - Research in 4 minutes (Rin4) competition at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
Aurelio Ruiz, Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Unit of Excellence María de Maeztu
It has become imperative to conduct funded research in today's highly resource constrained landscape of higher education. We must understand the attributes of research the mindset of researcher and the requirements of funded research.
Scientific Outreach and Grantsmanship Parts 1-3David Tng
Scientific outreach and grant writing are skills that will be essential throughout the career of is a researcher. This course is designed to provide tips for scientific outreach to, and more importantly, beyond the scientific community, and also to introduce the subject of grant writing for various formats of grant applications. This powerpoint presentation contains Part 1-3 of the course that was first delivered as an optional discipline module at the Institute of Biology, Federal University of Bahia.
STEM Mom facilitates discussion among teachers at Princeton University during their annual YSAP (Young Science Achievers Program) event. [April 20, 2013]
This event is for teachers who already implement student research and who are highly successful in encouraging students to DO science, integrated with TEM! This is the powerpoint used during our full-day workshop.
"Assessing Emerging Technology and Futures Capacity for Your OrganizationBryan Alexander
Materials for my 2016 Campus Technology workshop.
From the conference description:
"How can a campus information services organization best approach and strategize emerging technologies? Mr. Alexander will present futuring methods currently used in academia, non-profits, governments and businesses. You will learn how to use environmental scanning to identify major trends in the present which are likely to shape the medium-term future. Additionally, you will discuss with other attendees how to expand your institution’s capacity for assessing emerging technologies and other drivers that will reshape higher education."
How Does Reading & Learning Change on the Internet: Responding to New LiteraciesJulie Coiro
This slide show provides an overview of the ways in which reading comprehension looks different relative to how we locate, critical evaluate, synthesize, and communicate information on the Internet.
In this lecture you will learn about the importance of research questions, how they related to research problems, the properties of good research questions, and the differences between quantitative and qualitative research questions.
Webinar: Making the Case for Early STEM Learning- 2016-11-02TechSoup
Explore how to make a stronger case for early STEM experiences. A FrameWorks research into American public thinking revealed that people assume that science, technology, engineering, and math are highly specialized areas of knowledge that aren’t appropriate for young learners. In turn, this limits public support for the policies, funding, and programs that can foster early learning in these vital areas. We'll discuss and explore proven, practical ways for early childhood advocates to talk about why and how early STEM matters.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical Futures
Reu13 orientation
1. Stephen Gilbert, Associate Director, VRAC/HCI
Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering
SPIRE-EIT
Welcome Orientation 2013
2. Outline
Why are you here?
What's an REU? What's this REU?
What's VRAC?
What's research?
Why is research important? Innovation!
Why are you here?
Spaghetti & Gumdrops
3. Who's funding this?
National Science Foundation's CISE Directorate:
Computer & Information Science & Engineering
College of Liberal
Arts & Sciences
Graduate
College
4. Why are you here?
Well, who's funding it? What do they want?
A. NSF
B. DoD
C. DoEd
D. NIH
E. TLA
F. Templeton Foundation
G. Kauffman Foundation
H. MacArthur Foundation
I. Gates Foundation
J. Xprize Foundation
10. This is a blicket. Draw me 3 more.
Typical:
Rarer:
Almost
Never:
Special:
Straight
Round
Alignment
Endpoints
Middleness
11. “Natural” Interfaces
Map your learned expectations about the world onto
the system's structure.
This interface
doesn't violate my
natural sense of
what's special.
12. What are we doing this summer?
This is a job on a research team.
Intern / Student
It's one of the
most creative
jobs you'll have.
13. What will you do this summer?
Create something wonderful.
Be proud of it.
BUT
To do the best work you possibly can, you'll
probably need more than 40 hours per
week.
14. Themes of the REU
The nature of grad school
Teamwork
Reflection
Focused exploration
(that's what research is)
19. What do I do to succeed?
1. Participate a minimum of 40 hours per week in
program activities
2. Participate in various extracurricular activities
3. Talk with Lisa or Andrea regularly
4. Meet with Grad Student once a week (if not more)
5. Give an oral mid-summer presentation
6. Post in personal blog daily
7. Research symposium: poster, demo, 5-page paper
20. Blogging Daily
Reflection (it helps)
– Your classes
– Your project
– What are you learning?
– What are you struggling with?
Share with others
Practice expressing thought
From 1-1:30 each day
Comment on at least 2 others once a week
21. Research Paper
5 pages – We'll do it in milestones
Problem Area
Research Question
Lit Review
Methods
Results & Abstract
22. Professional work environment
9am – 5pm (call someone if sick, etc.)
Keep noise to a dull roar
Pods, Conf Room, ICE, Forum, Atrium, Room 10
Limit Facebook, etc. / no Torrents
No profanity, please
Consider diverse group
“Do you mean …?”
23. Who can help me?
REU Staff Stephen Gilbert & Eliot Winer, CoPIs
Pam Shill, Program Coordinator
Lisa Gestrine, Cross-REU Mentor
Andrea Halabi, Cross-REU Mentor
Grad Students & Faculty Mentors
Course Instructors
Tech Support, reu-help@hci.iastate.edu
Research Team Faculty Member
Grad Student(s)
Fellow Interns
24. Outline
Why are you here?
What's an REU? What's this REU?
What's VRAC?
What's research?
Why is research important? Innovation!
Why are you here?
Spaghetti & Gumdrops
(Stretch & Alphabetize)
25. If VRAC’s mission is…
Performing research on the rapidly expanding
interactions between humans and technology
What do we need to be good at?
Pair and share
26. Outline
Why are you here?
What's an REU? What's this REU?
What's VRAC?
What's research?
Why is research important? Innovation!
Why are you here?
Spaghetti & Gumdrops
27. Job Description: Researcher
Annual Salary: $15,000 - $300,000
Duties: Conduct focused exploration and
spread knowledge
What does that mean?
28. Research Experience Survey
1. Filled out surveys
2. Was a subject in psych 101 in
college
3. Answered phone surveys
4. Talked to marketing person
in mall
5. Conducted science labs
6. Rebuilt something several
times until it worked
7. Wrote research paper
summarizing a topic
8. Presented research project
9. Wrote annotated
bibliography
10. Conducted deep library (non-
Google) search on a topic
11. Ran a statistical analysis
12. Used Excel to create graphs
and charts
13. Presented data to laypeople
14. Interviewed someone
15. Made detailed observations
of a scene
29. Some Research Headlines
Drug-resistant staph
infections rising in poor
Chicago neighborhoods
Later bedtime may lead to
childhood obesity
College attendance affects drinking
behaviors in adolescents
Study reveals recent
evolution of lactose tolerance
Evidence suggests
King Richard III was
buried in haste
30. Flavors of Research
Basic Research
Applied Research
Program Evaluation
Secondary Analysis
Market Research?
Journalism?
31. Who Researches? Who Pays?
• Professional Scientists
/ Researchers
• Faculty
• Postdocs
• Grad students
• Undergraduates
• Government /
Military
• Corporate R&D
• Foundations /
Non-profits
• Universities
32. Outline
Why are you here?
What's an REU? What's this REU?
What's VRAC?
What's research?
Why is research important? Innovation!
Why are you here?
Spaghetti & Gumdrops
34. Innovation is Key to World Success
Innovation is the engine that drives economies.
Countries support innovation to ensure dynamic
economic advancement and prosperity, to gain
competitive advantage internationally, and to
improve the quality of life of their citizens and
those of other nations. The latter is fostered
through international collaboration, especially in
research and development.
- G8 Statement on Innovation, May 07
44. Why is innovation hard?
We're not well-trained.
We're missing so many players.
45. STEM Education Stats, 2006
• 51% of jobs held by women
• 26% of IT jobs held by women
• AP Exam Takers
– 56% women overall
– 48% women in AP Calc
– 15% women in AP Comp Sci
46. STEM Education Stats, 2006, cont.
• In 2006, women were:
– 59% of undergrad degrees
– 21% of computer science undergrad degrees
• In 1985, it was
– 37% of computer science undergrad degrees
What's going on?
47. Stats, cont.
In 2004, among computer scientists:
• 29% were female
• 4% were female and African American
• 2% were female and Asian
• 1% were female and Hispanic
We’re missing a lot of players.
49. Outline
Why are you here?
What's an REU? What's this REU?
What's VRAC?
What's research?
Why is research important? Innovation!
Why are you here?
Spaghetti & Gumdrops
HCI ?
Innovation ?
Change the world ?
50. Build a Tower
• The Top Gumdrop must be
the highest thing on your
tower.
• 15 minutes
Reflect on:
• Leadership
• Conflict resolution
• TED Video on tower building
Editor's Notes
Diff perspectives, diff assumptions…I messagesCommunication is failing if…you can talk about that – What is it that you mean by that?
