CMSC 634, Fall 2009, Homework 1
Due: September 15th, 2009, at the start of class
The following papers were presented in CHI, which is human-computer
interaction's premier conference, in April 2009.
You can find each paper on the ACM Digital Library.
- Timing is Everything? The Effects of Timing and Placement of Online
Privacy Indicators, by Egelman et al.
- Designing digital games for rural children: a study of traditional
village games in India, by Kam et al.
- Pathfinder: an online collaboration environment for citizen scientists, by Luther et al.
A research paper may describe one or more deductive experiments
or inductive studies. A single paper may include both an inductive part
and a deductive part.
For each paper, describe the experiment(s)/study(ies) presented
in the study.
Specifically, answer the following questions for each experiment or study.
- Is the work inductive or deductive?
- If it is INDUCTIVE,
- What is observed?
- What hypotheses are induced?
- If it is DEDUCTIVE,
- What is the hypothesis?
- What is/are the dep. variable(s) and indep. variable(s)?
- How are other relevant variables dealt with?
- Is the hypothesis confirmed or rejected?