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Page 1: The New ABCs of Research Ben Shneiderman ben@cs.umd.edu @benbendc Founding Director (1983-2000), Human-Computer Interaction Lab Professor, Department of

The New ABCs of Research

Ben Shneiderman [email protected] @benbendc

Founding Director (1983-2000), Human-Computer Interaction LabProfessor, Department of Computer Science

Member, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies

University of MarylandCollege Park, MD 20742

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Interdisciplinary research community - Computer Science & Info Studies - Psych, Socio, Educ, Jour & MITH www.cs.umd.edu/hcil

vimeo.com/72440805

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Design Issues

• Input devices & strategies• Keyboards, pointing devices, voice

• Direct manipulation

• Menus, forms, commands

• Output devices & formats• Screens, windows, color, sound

• Text, tables, graphics

• Instructions, messages, help

• Collaboration & Social Media

• Help, tutorials, training

• Search www.awl.com/DTUI

Sixth Edition: 2016

• Visualization

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Children’s Hospital in DC: Trauma Bay

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EventFlow

AirwayBreathing

CirculationDisability

Secondary Survey

www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/eventflow

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Children’s Hospital Trauma Care: EventFlow

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Children’s Hospital Trauma Care: EventFlow

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Children’s Hospital Trauma Care: EventFlow

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The New ABCs of Research (Oxford, 2016)

• Guide for junior researchers

• Manifesto for senior researchers, business leaders & funding agencies

• Reframe the research agenda & methods

Teamwork when done right can produce high impact

   http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198758839.do

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The New ABCs of Research

Immense Problems

Guiding Lifecycle New Context Principles Strategies Knowledge

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The New ABCs of Research

New Technologies

Immense Problems

Guiding Lifecycle New Context Principles Strategies Knowledge

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The New ABCs of Research

New Technologies

Immense Problems

RaisedAmbitions

Guiding Lifecycle New Context Principles Strategies Knowledge

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ABC Principle

Applied & Basic Combined

Combining applied with basic research produces more rapid progress in both

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SED Principle

Blending Science, Engineering & Design

produces higher-impact research

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Science, Engineering, Design

https://books.google.com/ngrams

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Scientist, Engineer & Designer

NY Times articles

http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/

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The New ABCs of Research

New Technologies

Immense Problems

RaisedAmbitions

Applied & Basic

Combined

Science,Engineering

& Design

Guiding Lifecycle New Context Principles Strategies Knowledge

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The New ABCs of Research

New Technologies

Immense Problems

RaisedAmbitions

Choose actionable problems: civic, business

& global priorities

Apply observation, intervention & controlled

experiments

Form teams with diverse individuals & organizations

Test ideas & prototypes with

realistic interventions

Promote adoption & assess impact

Applied & Basic

Combined

Science,Engineering

& Design

Guiding Lifecycle New Context Principles Strategies Knowledge

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The New ABCs of Research

New Technologies

Immense Problems

RaisedAmbitions

Solutions

Theories

Choose actionable problems: civic, business

& global priorities

Apply observation, intervention & controlled

experiments

Form teams with diverse individuals & organizations

Test ideas &prototypes with

realistic interventions

Promote adoption & assess impact

Applied & Basic

Combined

Science,Engineering

& Design

Guiding Lifecycle New Context Principles Strategies Knowledge

Page 20: The New ABCs of Research Ben Shneiderman ben@cs.umd.edu @benbendc Founding Director (1983-2000), Human-Computer Interaction Lab Professor, Department of

The New ABCs of Research

New Technologies

Immense Problems

RaisedAmbitions

Solutions

Theories

Choose actionable problems: civic, business

& global priorities

Apply observation, intervention & controlled

experiments

Form teams with diverse individuals & organizations

Test ideas &prototypes with

realistic interventions

Promote adoption & assess impact

Applied & Basic

Combined

Science,Engineering

& Design

Guiding Lifecycle New Context Principles Strategies Knowledge

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The New ABCs of Research

Form teams with diverse individuals & organizations

Guiding Lifecycle New Context Principles Strategies Knowledge

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The New ABCs of Research

Form teams with diverse individuals & organizations

Guiding Lifecycle New Context Principles Strategies Knowledge

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Teamwork is the New Norm

Percentage of publications by more than one author

Cooke & Hilton (Eds), Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Sciencehttp://www.nap.edu/catalog/19007/enhancing-the-effectiveness-of-team-science

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Teams: WHY?

• ???

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Why work in teams?

To complete a substantial project in time More ideas - Getting unstuck Combine strengths/skills in different areas Backup - redundancy Motivating - responsibility to peers Modularity helps - accountability Learning It’s fun! (potentially)

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What are the problems of working in teams?

People get in the way Disagreements Communication gaps

Overstressed – not living up to expectations Inferiority complex Fear of letting down peers

Dealing with messing up Leadership troubles Lack of trust- unbalanced contributions Risk- of others not doing their share Personality, working style conflicts

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How to work in teams?

Social structure Who sets the agenda/tasks/schedule Who measures quality or approves results What is the pacing- forms of coordination

Technology support Email Chat Phone Video-conference or phone F2F

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Teams: Guidelines

• Previously successful collaborations

• Balanced teams

• Clearly defined goals & roles

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Teams: Guidelines

• Previously successful collaborations

• Balanced teams

• Clearly defined goals & roles

• Explicit statements of who does what by when

• Regular and open discussions

• Good communication

Page 30: The New ABCs of Research Ben Shneiderman ben@cs.umd.edu @benbendc Founding Director (1983-2000), Human-Computer Interaction Lab Professor, Department of

Teams: Guidelines

• Previously successful collaborations

• Balanced teams

• Clearly defined goals & roles

• Explicit statements of who does what by when

• Regular and open discussions

• Good communication

• Collaboration readiness

• Technology readiness for remote teamwork

• Technology readiness for collaboration

Page 31: The New ABCs of Research Ben Shneiderman ben@cs.umd.edu @benbendc Founding Director (1983-2000), Human-Computer Interaction Lab Professor, Department of

Teams: Guidelines

• Previously successful collaborations

• Balanced teams

• Clearly defined goals & roles

• Explicit statements of who does what by when

• Regular and open discussions

• Good communication

• Collaboration readiness

• Technology readiness for remote teamwork

• Technology readiness for collaboration

• Trained experienced leadership

• Adequate administrative resources and services

• Use of effective brainstorming strategies

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National Academies Report (2015):Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science

Dimension Low High

Diversity Homogeneous Heterogeneous

Disciplinary Integration Unidisciplinary Transdisciplinary

Team or group size Small (2-10) Mega (1000s)

Goal alignment Aligned Divergent

Permeable boundaries Stable Fluid

Proximity Co-located Globally distributed

Task interdependence Low High

Cooke & Hilton (Eds), Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Sciencehttp://www.nap.edu/catalog/19007/enhancing-the-effectiveness-of-team-science

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Teams: Winning Strategy

• Powers of Two (End of the Lone Genius) (Shenk, 2014)

• Teams: Difficult to form, hugely effective

• Takes practice to gain skills• Clear goals, clear roles

• Trust, communication, recognition

• WJU2007: teams 2.1 times the impact

• Large teams need administrative support

scienceofteamscience.org www.teamsciencetoolkit.cancer.gov

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Teams: Winning Strategy

• Powers of Two (End of the Lone Genius) (Shenk, 2014)

• Teams: Difficult to form, hugely effective

• Takes practice to gain skills• Clear goals, clear roles: Who Does What by When

• Trust, communication, recognition

• WJU2007: teams 2.1 times the impact

• Large teams need administrative support

scienceofteamscience.org www.teamsciencetoolkit.cancer.gov

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Teams: Winning Strategy

• Powers of Two (End of the Lone Genius) (Shenk, 2014)

• Teams: Difficult to form, hugely effective

• Takes practice to gain skills• Clear goals, clear roles: Who Does What by When

• Trust, communication, recognition

• WJU2007: teams 2.1 times the impact

• Large teams need administrative support

• FUN!

scienceofteamscience.org www.teamsciencetoolkit.cancer.gov

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Research Project: 2 parents, 3 children

PracticalSolutions

RefinedTheories

Guidance to Future

Researchers

ResearchProject

AppliedProblems

BasicTheories

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The New ABCs of Research

New Technologies

Immense Problems

RaisedAmbitions

Solutions

Theories

Choose actionable problems: civic, business

& global priorities

Apply observation, intervention & controlled

experiments

Form teams with diverse individuals & organizations

Test ideas &prototypes with

realistic interventions

Promote adoption & assess impact

Applied & Basic

Combined

Science,Engineering

& Design

Guiding Lifecycle New Context Principles Strategies Knowledge

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The New ABCs of Research

Promote adoption & assess impact

Guiding Lifecycle New Context Principles Strategies Knowledge

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Promote Adoption & Assess Impact

• Clear writing begets clear thinking• Story-telling trajectories

• Promote adoption• Send Five & Thrive

• Papers, websites, videos, tweets, blogs

• Assess impact• Citations, downloads, tweets, blogposts

• Best Paper Awards, testimonials, usage reports

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• Ideas travel through networks and relationships

• Cultivate champions.

• Present, Present, Present!

• Join relevant committees & insert your findings into decision making

• Don’t wait for publication. Disseminate early

Promoting Adoption: Becker Model

https://becker.wustl.edu/impact-assessment/strategies

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Online Services

• Open Research: arXiv.org, PLOS, Open Science

• Community Building Sites:• Academia: platform for academics to share research papers…

to accelerate the world's research (19M users)

• ResearchGate: connect researchers share scientific output, knowledge & expertise

• ORCID, VIVO, FORCE11, …

• Research Paper Managers:• Mendeley: The best free way to organize your research

• Zotero: free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite & share your research sources

• CiteULike: free service to help you to store, organise & share the scholarly papers you are reading

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The New ABCs of Research

Applied & Basic Combined

Achieving Breakthrough Collaborations

Ask Bigger Cuestions

Analysis Based on Creativity

Actively Build Connections

Aspire to Be like Colwell

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Books: Teamwork

• Nancy Cooke & Margaret Hilton (Editors), Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science, National Academies Press, Washington, DC (2015). http://www.nap.edu/catalog/19007/enhancing-the-effectiveness-of-team-science

• Walter Isaacson, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, Simon & Schuster, New York (2014). 

• Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: A Natural History of Innovation, Riverhead Publishers (2010).

• Joshua Shenk, Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2014).

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Books: Writing

• Mark J. Kuchner, Marketing for Scientists: How to Shine in Tough Times, Island Press (2011).

• Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, Viking (2014). 

• Joshua Schimel, Writing Science: How to Write Papers That Get Cited and Proposals That Get Funded, Oxford University Press (2011).

 

• Turabian, K. L., Booth, W. C., Colomb, G. G., Williams, J. M., and the University of Chicago Press Staff, A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Eighth Edition (2013).

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The New ABCs of Research

New Technologies

Immense Problems

RaisedAmbitions

Solutions

Theories

Choose actionable problems: civic, business

& global priorities

Apply observation, intervention & controlled

experiments

Form teams with diverse individuals & organizations

Test prototypes withrealistic interventions

Promote adoption & assess impact

Applied & Basic

Combined

Science,Engineering

& Design

Guiding Lifecycle New Context Principles Strategies Knowledge

Questions