After visiting Dave de Roure for the afternoon yesterday, I found myself with the chance to attend the final talk of the day at the Digital Humanities Summer School. Ray and Lynne Siemens were speaking on “The Uneasy Pursuit of the Future of the Book” and “Building and Maintaining a Team Approach in a Rapidly-Advancing [...]
Posts Tagged ‘methodology’
26 Jul
WebSci’11 videos online
The good organisers of WebSci’11 recorded the talks, which are now available online. (videolectures.net is new to me: quite a slick site.) My talk on Teasing Apart with Meta Analysis, an approach for understanding user experiences online, is here. Meanwhile, this past post describes the gist of it, and links to the paper and slides.
28 Jun
$n-disciplinary: meaning(lessness) and competing terms
I stumbled across some blurb that included the word ‘transdisciplinary’ today. I’d already been thinking about the meaning of ‘interdisciplinary’ as opposed to ‘multidisciplinary’. In a typical “dear lazywebs” moment, I posed the question to Twitter: what is the difference? Max Wilson was good enough to respond, remarking that to him, ‘inter’ is a point [...]
15 Jun
Teasing Apart with Meta Analysis
I’m presenting Teasing Apart with Meta Analysis (TAMA) at WebSci’11 today: this post is a very brief summary, plus links to further information. In a nutshell, TAMA is a method for understanding user experiences. It grew from Teasing Apart, Piecing Together (TAPT), a method I built during my EngD. TAPT is about analysis and then [...]
26 May
Methods and methodology in WebSci
Last week I promised a post about the talk I gave at the Montpellier Web Science meet-up. This is that post! I considered using the slot to discuss the specific research I’ve been doing recently, but decided instead to talk in a more holistic way about methods and methodology. I think this fit well with [...]
