General Information

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Project Goals

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Weekly Log

Week 1:

Gathered CHI 2020, UIST 2019, and CSCW 2019 proceedings and found 5-10 articles on science writing. Documented their goals/research questions, systems built, methods, and results.

Week 2:

Read each article in depth and took notes; discussed interesting aspects with Katy. Started presentation of literature review for Professor Chilton.

Week 3:

Continued working through presentation with Katy's feedback. Observed ShutDownStem on Wednesday. Began attending lab meetings with HCI group at Columbia.

Week 4:

Presented presentation to Lydia, went over revisions with Katy. Began to look for science communication articles and started weekly search for tweetorials.

Week 5:

Added more CSCW papers and began writing a related works section. Papers included: MepsBot, Heteroglossia, Lily, Adaptive Learning, r/science, and others. Reviewed topics for hooks to be used in preliminary study. Continue reading more literature and synthesize points made in science communication resources/write them into paper.

Week 6:

Switched to writing background section. Continued revising paper sections and write more hooks.

Week 7:

Began interviewing participants with the hook tutorial. Revised drafts to a working point.

Week 8:

Wrote a small amount of code to visualize results of study. Ran study with more participants on Thursday and Friday. Continued coding over weekend.

Week 9:

Worked on presentation and paper.

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Additional Information

• My Mentors
  • Professor Lydia Chilton
  • Graduate student Katy Gero

Acknowledgements

Thanks to my mentors Professor Lydia Chilton for their guidance, to the Craig Newmark Philanthropies for its funding, and to DIMACS for providing this opportunity.