VERSITET ROBERT STEPHEN BREWER AARHUS UNIVERSITY 26. SEPTEMBER 2014 UNI The Structure of a Paper
AARHUS UNIVERSITY IT Bachelor Class SEPTEMBER 2014 INTRODUCTION ›Problem/Motivation ›Related work ›Research questions! ›Your solution/design(s) ›Your results ›Structure of rest of paper 2
AARHUS UNIVERSITY IT Bachelor Class SEPTEMBER 2014 RELATED WORK ›Will talk about this in-depth in second half of lecture 3
AARHUS UNIVERSITY IT Bachelor Class SEPTEMBER 2014 SYSTEM/DESIGN ›What did you make? ›What motivated your decisions? ›Related systems ›Theories ›Process ›If relevant to others 4
AARHUS UNIVERSITY IT Bachelor Class SEPTEMBER 2014 RESULTS/EVALUATION ›Does it work? ›How does it work (or not)? ›Methods are relevant here ›What doe the users think? 5
AARHUS UNIVERSITY IT Bachelor Class SEPTEMBER 2014 CONCLUSION ›What did you accomplish? ›Contributions ›Why should someone care? ›Future work ›What would you do differently? ›What more do you wish you could have done? 6
AARHUS UNIVERSITY IT Bachelor Class SEPTEMBER 2014 REFERENCES ›See second half 7
VERSITET ROBERT STEPHEN BREWER AARHUS UNIVERSITY 26. SEPTEMBER 2014 UNI RELATED WORK 8
AARHUS UNIVERSITY IT Bachelor Class SEPTEMBER 2014 WHY? ›To understand what has come before ›Don’t reinvent the wheel ›Techniques/methods you can use ›Fitting your work into the literature 9
AARHUS UNIVERSITY IT Bachelor Class SEPTEMBER 2014 TYPES OF RELATED WORK ›Problem/Motivation ›Domain references ›Related systems/products ›Theories ›Methods ›Mapping workshop to follow this lecture 10
AARHUS UNIVERSITY IT Bachelor Class SEPTEMBER 2014 STRUCTURE OF RELATED WORK ›Summarize each work ›At least parts relevant to your project ›Relate it to your project ›Synthesis ›Each section should synthesize what you have presented ›Ex. table of features of related systems 11
AARHUS UNIVERSITY IT Bachelor Class SEPTEMBER 2014 HOW TO CITE WORK ›Two parts ›Citation in text ›List of references at end ›Multiple formats, depends on venue
AARHUS UNIVERSITY IT Bachelor Class SEPTEMBER 2014 IN-TEXT CITATION ›Common formats ›Cite by number: [1] or [7, 12, 42] ›Refs are listed alphabetically ›Cite by name and year: (Nielsen, 2013) ›ACM uses number, so use that for this class 13
AARHUS UNIVERSITY IT Bachelor Class SEPTEMBER 2014 USING CITATIONS ›Citations support points you make in the text ›Influential theorists of this movement include Reckwitz [33] and Schatzki [36] whose definitions of practice, and views on what shapes behavior, have inspired consumer research and environmental studies [30, 35, 38, 41, 43]. ›Indeed, Kuutti and Bannon also highlight the need for models and frameworks to move forward in the Practice paradigm [26]. ›As put by Røpke, “People are practitioners who indirectly, through the performance of various practices, draw on resources” [35]. ›More than 2 authors: Nielsen et al. describe a… 14
AARHUS UNIVERSITY IT Bachelor Class SEPTEMBER 2014 HOW NOT TO USE CITATIONS ›Using citation number as a noun ›[3] provides good support for our position that… ›Another relevant source is [17] who says… ›Article [6] describes… 15
AARHUS UNIVERSITY IT Bachelor Class SEPTEMBER 2014 LIST OF REFERENCES ›Many different formats! ›Most important points: who, what, where, when ›Use ACM SIG format ›Bødker, S. When second wave HCI meets third wave challenges. In Proc. NordiCHI '06, ACM (2006),
AARHUS UNIVERSITY IT Bachelor Class SEPTEMBER 2014 TOOLS FOR MAINTAINING REFS ›Maintain ordered bibliographic data ›Provide way to cite in documents ›Tracking all those numbers ›Keeping list in order ›Sometimes help searching & capturing references 17
AARHUS UNIVERSITY IT Bachelor Class SEPTEMBER 2014 EXAMPLE TOOLS ›Mendeley ›open source, cross platform ›Zotero ›open source, browser-based ›EndNote ›commercial (AU site-license?) ›Many other options ›Check on syncing options since you work in groups 18
AARHUS UNIVERSITY IT Bachelor Class SEPTEMBER 2014 OTHER TIPS ›Double check your refs! ›Many cites offer export, but sometimes incorrect ›Crowdsourced refs (like Mendeley) can be wrong ›Don't wait until last minute ›Build your related work section as you go ›Getting refs right can take a surprising amount of time 19