http://phdboy.sarahstim.com Tim Bowman, Ph.D. Student, SLIS @ IUB Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:05:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en NOTE:  This post is a brief summary of a larger paper in the works... In an attempt to establish a personal, reflective, and examined intellectual position in relation to design as a professional process of inquiry, thought, and action, I've been writing on Heidegger and Schön in design discourse. The position ... http://phdboy.sarahstim.com/2009/12/13/heidegger-and-schon-in-design-discourse/ [caption id="" align="alignright" width="224" caption="Firefox Add-On Development Center Logo"][/caption] For the past few years I've been working on and off toward the development of a web-based text and image annotation tool for the Chymistry of Isaac Newton Project; I've been a member of the team since Fall 2007.   If you have ... http://phdboy.sarahstim.com/2009/10/22/chymistry-of-isaac-newton-annotation-tool-development/ In a recent study by by Poole, et. al., Reflecting on the invisible: Understanding end-user perceptions of ubiquitous computing, the authors examine "non-functional" properties of technology adoption.   The authors claim that a user's understanding of what a technology does and how it works shapes their "orientation" towards it.  Specifically focusing on ... http://phdboy.sarahstim.com/2009/02/14/folk-theories-and-ubicomp/ This past Saturday SLIS had a Ph.D. Forum for all Ph.D. students to present their research and ideas to each other along side faculty members.  It is meant as a friendly environment, hoping to provide Ph.D. students with practice speaking in front of others regarding their research and ideas as ... http://phdboy.sarahstim.com/2008/10/13/public-speaking-fear/ I had my first exam in adv stats this week.  It was basic stats, methods I had as an undergraduate at ISU.  I had to take two statistics classes as a psych undergrad, while also producing and working on several research projects that involved using SPSS (1999 version) and computing ... http://phdboy.sarahstim.com/2008/10/03/advanced-statistics-psychology/ Today marked the end of my first Summer I workshop on GIS.  It is only 1.5 credits so only lasted the first couple of weeks of Summer I.   I am taking Agent Based Modeling the second half of Summer I.  It should also be very interesting.  For my final project ... http://phdboy.sarahstim.com/2008/05/21/summer-i-gis-class-completed/ Summer I has started and I'm enrolled in GIS, Agent-based Modeling, an Independent Research Class and a Ph.D. Research Class.  Only 6 credit hours total, but mucho work.    The GIS is very interesting.  We are using ESRI Desktop GIS software, specifically ArcMap and ArcCatalog to do our GIS work.  I'm ... http://phdboy.sarahstim.com/2008/05/14/geographic-information-systems/