HOW TO FIND, READ, WRITE ABOUT AND REFERENCE RESEARCH PAPERS?

Find papers  Where to look?  Conferences  Journals  Online: people, labs  References in papers read  Conference organizers, journal editors E.g. Pervasive committeesPervasive committees  Conference website links, e.g.: Links to previous conferences: UbicompUbicomp Proceedings online: Automotive UIAutomotive UI  Your advisor’s and collaborators’ suggestions

Find papers  IEEE Xplore IEEE Xplore  ACM Digital Library ACM Digital Library  Others on UNH Library website (print & electronic)  People’s websites (my list)list

Find papers  Where not to look (with few exceptions)?  Sales brochures  Company white papers  Online tutorials  News  Blogs

Find papers  So, what are some of those exceptions?  Company white paper: You trust the company White paper free of advertisement  News story, blog post: initial lead, not final reference: My post on ETRA 2010 paperpost Albrecht Schmidt post on energy harvestingpost Videos that make you think:

Videos that make you think

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Read  Take notes:  On paper (print out paper?)  In electronic form (e.g. Word document) – eventually you’ll need this!  Reference Manager?

Read: how many?  Signs that you have a good overview:  See references to papers you’ve read  You expect, and find, a reference in a sentence/section  Recurring references over multiple papers  References cover decades  References up to date (including very recent conference papers)

Write about  What matters?  What has been done?  Similarities  Dissimilarities

Write about  What has been done?  “I’m not working on something that’s already been done.”  “I am building on other’s work.”

Write about  Similarities, e.g.:  “At least parts of my work fit into what we all accept as be correct.”  Approach  Results

Write about  Dissimilarities, e.g.:  “I have a contribution to make.”  Results  Explanations

Reference  What matters?  Author(s): Helps identify relationships between papers Helps evaluate quality (e.g. use h-score)  Title: Topic relevance  Publication: Helps evaluate quality (e.g. use h-score, impact factor)  Year Relevance Coverage

Reference  Format:  Strictly prescribed by publication  Often downloadable from database (e.g. IEEE)  Reference Manager, MS Word 2007

Reference  Website:  Eaton, K. Navigon’s 8100T GPS Has 3D Terrain-View Maps. gps-has-3d-terrain+view-maps. Nov. 10, Retrieved 5/30/ gps-has-3d-terrain+view-maps

Reference  Technical report:  Kun, A.L., Paek, T., Medenica, Z., Oppelaar, J.E., Palinko, O. The Effects of In-Car Navigation Aids on Driving Performance and Visual Attention. Technical Report ECE.P , Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of New Hampshire, 2009.

Reference  Conference paper  Porathe, T., Prison, J. Design of Human-Map System Interaction. CHI, 2008.

Reference  Journal paper:  Strayer, D. and Johnston, W. Driven to Distraction: Dual- Task Studies of Simulated Driving and Conversing on a Cellular Telephone. Psych. Science, 12(5), , 2002.

Reference  Book:  Tavel, P Modeling and Simulation Design. AK Peters Ltd.

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