1. School of Informatics MRes: CG157 Research Methods Reporting researchDr Paul Vickers1 Reporting research Where to report it

2. MRes: CG157 Research Methods School of Informatics Reporting researchDr Paul Vickers2 Introduction Results from research must be communicated to the world –To assist future researchers & to add to the body of knowledge –To justify further funding/support! We do this via –Journals & conferences –Workshops & seminars –Reports –Books

3. MRes: CG157 Research Methods School of Informatics Reporting researchDr Paul Vickers3 Role of supervisor Don’t submit or publish anything without supervisor’s prior knowledge/approval –May save you from embarrassment… –…or even trouble –Supervisor’s input may mean the difference between acceptance & rejection Joint authoring –Including supervisor costs you nothing –Excluding him/her could cost you dear…

4. MRes: CG157 Research Methods School of Informatics Reporting researchDr Paul Vickers4 Journals Journal articles are very formal Provide an in-depth description and discussion of the research (approx 8,000 words) –Though somewhat abstracted, c.f. reports May need several articles to cover one piece of research –E.g. a survey article, methodology article, results article –We might expect a PhD to yield 2 or 3 journal articles Lengthy publication cycle

5. MRes: CG157 Research Methods School of Informatics Reporting researchDr Paul Vickers5 Conferences A timely vehicle for disseminating results Shorter than journal articles (2,000-4,000 words) Short presentation (typically 20-30 mins) Some conferences more strongly refereed that others Good for getting your work known Often, publish at conference then submit extended article to a journal Normally require attendance (  more costly than journals!)

6. MRes: CG157 Research Methods School of Informatics Reporting researchDr Paul Vickers6 Magazines 2 types –Well regarded scholarly publications, e.g. Communications of the ACM that are not true journals –Informative, but essentially ‘newsy’ publications. Articles often written by journalists

7. MRes: CG157 Research Methods School of Informatics Reporting researchDr Paul Vickers7 Workshops Can organise workshops at conferences based on your research (akin to lecture & seminar model) Often an agreed outcome of a funded project Means of getting a very focused group of workers together If invited to a workshop (e.g. EPSRC) then good opportunity for networking

8. MRes: CG157 Research Methods School of Informatics Reporting researchDr Paul Vickers8 Seminars Being invited as a guest speaker to give a seminar is a good dissemination activity Sometimes as simple as inviting yourself (you should have contacts in other universities) More in-depth than a conference presentation (typically 1 hour): prepare to be grilled! Mid-point progression presentation

9. MRes: CG157 Research Methods School of Informatics Reporting researchDr Paul Vickers9 Reports End of project reports usually required by funding councils: this type lengthy, covering all the research Also, departmental (aka technical) reports –V. useful for staking your claim to an area –No page limit: can provide background detail referenced by a journal article –Good for practising your writing skills

10. MRes: CG157 Research Methods School of Informatics Reporting researchDr Paul Vickers10 Books Book chapters, or even whole books are for when you have achieved a measure of recognition Don’t expect to do a lot (any?) of this in your early years

11. MRes: CG157 Research Methods School of Informatics Reporting researchDr Paul Vickers11 Example From my own PhD project: –Vickers, P. CAITLIN: Implementation of a Musical Program Auralisation System to Study the Effects on Debugging Tasks as Performed by Novice Pascal Programmers Computer Science, Loughborough University, Loughborough, 1999, pp. 234. Conferences, journals, technical reports, seminars, workshop attendance

12. MRes: CG157 Research Methods School of Informatics Reporting researchDr Paul Vickers12 Conferences 1.Alty, J.L. and Vickers, P., The CAITLIN Auralization System: Hierarchical Leitmotif Design as a Clue to Program Comprehension. in ICAD '97 Fourth International Conference on Auditory Display, (Palo Alto, 1997), Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA 94304, 89-96. 2.Alty, J.L., Vickers, P. and Rigas, D., Using Music as a Communication Medium. in Refereed Demonstrations, CHI97 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Atlanta, GA, 1997), ACM Press, 30-31. 3.Vickers, P. and Alty, J.L., CAITLIN: A Musical Program Auralisation Tool to Assist Novice Programmers with Debugging. in ICAD '96 Third International Conference on Auditory Display, (Palo Alto, 1996), Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA 94304, 17-24. 4.Vickers, P. and Alty, J.L., Towards some Organising Principles for Musical Program Auralisation. in ICAD '98 Fifth International Conference on Auditory Display, (Glasgow, 1998), British Computer Society. 5.Vickers, P. and Alty, J.L., Musical Program Auralisation: Empirical Studies. in ICAD 2000 Sixth International Conference on Auditory Display, (Atlanta, GA, 2000), International Community for Auditory Display, 157-166.

13. MRes: CG157 Research Methods School of Informatics Reporting researchDr Paul Vickers13 Journals & magazines 1.Vickers, P. and Alty, J.L. Using Music to Communicate Computing Information. Interacting with Computers, 14 (5), 2002. 435-456. 2.Vickers, P. and Alty, J.L. Musical Program Auralisation: A Structured Approach to Motif Design. Interacting with Computers, 14 (5), 2002. 457-485. 3.Vickers, P. and Alty, J.L. When Bugs Sing. Interacting with Computers, 14 (6), 2002. 793-819. 4.Vickers, P. and Alty, J.L. Siren Songs and Swan Songs: Using Music to Help Locate and Diagnose Software Errors Communications of the ACM, in press, 2003. Magazine

14. MRes: CG157 Research Methods School of Informatics Reporting researchDr Paul Vickers14 Technical reports 1.Vickers, P. Using the World-Wide Web as a Platform for an Interactive Experiment, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, Technical Report: CMS 21, ISBN 1-902560-050.

15. MRes: CG157 Research Methods School of Informatics Reporting researchDr Paul Vickers15 Seminars 1.When Bugs Sing: Adventures with Auditory External Representations of Programs, Seminar at Open University, Department of Computing, 17 October 2002 2.Visualisation Using Audio Signal Processing, Seminar at Northumbria University, School of Engineering, 23 October, 2002

16. MRes: CG157 Research Methods School of Informatics Reporting researchDr Paul Vickers16 Workshops 1.Music and IT, EPSRC Workshop, Harrogate, 19-21 February, 2001