Alistair D N Edwards Searching

Homework How did you find out about The Gulfs of Execution and Evaluation?

Resources Google Scholar Comprehensive Usually has link to an on-line version, if available Includes citations and other information

Resources Library Library e-texts Available off-site Yorsearch E-resources

Resources Library

Resources HCI Bibliography ACM Digital Library IEEE Xplore

Resources Wikipedia Brilliant but be careful An excellent starting point but pursue the references

Doing your literature review

Look for those references that have titles and keywords that seem to match the problem you are solving If available, read the abstract Do this early because if you need to see a paper and we don’t have it in the University you can order through inter-library loans (ILL)

Doing your literature review Read the abstract, introduction and conclusions If they are well written these will tell you what the paper is about and whether it is useful Discard those that are not useful – may want to keep a file of interesting things to look at for another time Keep those that are applicable and read methods and results

Doing your literature review Read the abstract, introduction and conclusions These will also be most important in the paper you write and are often poor

Doing your literature review Make notes as you go along Organize the papers cleverly – use good tools to store and organize papers Desktop – Bibtex, EndNote, RefMan Cloud – Mendeley, Citeulike, EndNote Do not keep them in a word document or other basic file type – you will drown With the above tools you can then generate bibliographies for your own paper in whatever format you want

Summary Marshal your resources Find that pivotal reference Follow it up, back and forth Keep notes