Posts Tagged “research”

Master’s completed, check – Onward to PhD!

by Diana on September 8, 2010

Wow, it’s been a while I know! Master’s Completed! On August 12 I presented my practicum / thesis to my anthropology department on the Fedora Project titled: An Exploration of the Fedora Project’s Online Open Source Development Community. The unique (…)

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Finally almost two years later…

by Diana on August 30, 2010

From a direct email Best Buy sent me: “Next time you’re at a Best Buy store you can conveniently get the product information you need—right from your mobile phone. Learn more about specifications, ratings and reviews using the new QR (…)

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My take on ‘Guerrilla Research’ as an anthropologist and UXD professional

by Diana on July 21, 2010

I’ve been avidly following a discussion on the anthro-design list about guerrilla research and thought that perhaps my reply as both a traditional researcher and a guerrilla researcher may be useful to those who follow my blog. So, here it (…)

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Research Results – Beta Release

by Diana on July 8, 2010

Hello again Fedora! I know it’s been a while, and for that my apologies. But you see, I’ve been working very very hard this last month and a half to bring you the results of the research study we worked (…)

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Qualitative vs Quantitative

by Diana on June 24, 2010

This seemed pretty apropos for today’s comic as I’m writing up all of the reports for Fedora at this moment using a combination of qualitative and quantitative data.

An external view of my brain while writing my master’s practicum (thesis) papers…

by Diana on June 20, 2010

And we have lift off!

by Diana on May 10, 2010

Survey Now Available: I am hereby inviting all Fedora contributors to participate in my Fedora Research Survey by clicking on the banner below! If you are not a Fedora contributor, please do not take the survey. Survey Details: All responses (…)

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Fedora: On Research Design

by Diana on February 8, 2010

Research design in anthropology is a tricky thing. It is the part of the process you do before you do anything else, and thus you do before you have any real sense of the situation in which you will be (…)

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Fedora: Still looking for Interview Participants!

by Diana on January 28, 2010

If you would like to participate in the interview portion of the Fedora research project I am current conducting, please visit my informational post on it here! I need at least 10 more willing participants by the end of next (…)

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Fedora Research Ahoy!

by Diana on November 1, 2009

I’m sitting here at my computer trying to figure out how to join the Fedora blogroll and notice that the hat I was given on Wednesday night by a friend is in fact, a fedora. Today my research for my (…)

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