Winter2016: CS 519 SCHEDULE

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1		Class	DAY	Topic	Due	Presenters/ PPT

2	NOTE: This is a tentative schedule and subject to change as the term progresses, please check the schedule regularly
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4		1	T: 01/05	Introduction to course
5		2	Th: 01/07	Class contributions
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7		3	T: 01/12	Performing Qualitative Study - quick overview - shull, chapter2		Observations, think aloud, codes in transcripts
8				Slides on qualitative study
9		4	Th: 01/14	An overview of sensemaking ressearch: Dervin 1983	D1	Dervin Slides
10				Recommended: Abraham Dissertation, 2013: Chap 2
11			Fr: 01/15		HW1: Project Proposals
12	3					[Add Your name as a comment]
13		5	T: 01/19	Coding.pptx, presented by David
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15		6	Th: 01/21	Information Needs in software development	D2 (this for the Thu class and spans the 2 papers)	Student name: Caius
16				The cost structure of sensemaking		student name: Sogol
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18		7	T: 01/26	Qualitative Methods <read:VariationForaging.pdf>
19				Slides from Class (Study design)
20		8	Th: 01/28	Discussion of code sets and observation results
21				Video snippet & Transcript.xls
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23		9	T: 02/02	Class Cancelled
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25			W: 02/03		HW2-a: Observation reports
26		10	Th: 02/04	Information Foraging in Information Access Environments	D3	student name: David
27				Sensemaking and Design Practices in Large-scale Group-to-Group Distance Collaboration		Student name:Lakshman Madhav
28			Fri: 02/05		HW2-b: Observation reports
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30		11	T: 02/9	End-User Debugging Strategies: A Sensemaking Perspective	D4	student 1&2: Shajith Ravi & Varun
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32		12	Th: 02/11	Sources of Structure in Sensemaking, Qu&Farnas-2005	Discussion of Code sets from Project/Pilot ??
33			Fri: 02/12
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35		13	T: 02/16	An Information Foraging Theory Perspective on Tools for Debugging	D5	student 1&2: Surendar & Nick
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37		14	Th: 02/18	Green/Petre Cognitive Dimensions paper.	D6	Student 1 & 2: Dilruba & Charles
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40			M: 02/22: 10:00 am	<SLIP IN HARD COPY UNDER DOOR>	HW4: project midterm report
41		15	T: 02/23	The sensemaking process and leverage points for analyst technology as identified through cognitive task analysis	HW3: A CD analysis of the tool/language you are studying	Student name: Omkar
42				Spool, J., Profetti, C., and Britain, D., Designing for the scent of information, User Interface Eng. (2004)	D7	Student name: sruti
43			W: 02/24: 9:00 am		Project reports & Study materials shared with teams so we can discuss it on Thu
44		16	Th: 02/25	Project discussions <each team will be paired & evaluate each other>
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46		17	T: 03/01	Model-driven formative evaluation of exploratory search: A study under a sensemaking framework (QuFarnas2007)	D8	Sogol
47				As we may think
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49		18	Th: 03/03	Making sense of sensemaking part I	D9
50				Making sense of sensemaking part II
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52		19	T: 03/08	Project Presentations	[Sogol + Lakshman]; Caius; [Charles + Nick]
53		20	Th: 03/10	Project Presentations	[Surendar+ Sruti]; [David + Omkar]; [Varun + Shajith]; Dilruba
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55			Thu: 03/17: 5 PM		Final Report
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61				Last day to withdraw	2/19/2015
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