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IofT 1910 W Fall 2006 Week 6. Plan for today: Talk about study and IRB Discuss questions about the paper Talk about the lab on Thursday. Study on using AIBOs to increase diversity in undergraduate CS programs. NSF funded study Develop new course centered on AIBO
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IofT 1910 W Fall 2006Week 6 Plan for today: Talk about study and IRB Discuss questions about the paper Talk about the lab on Thursday
Study on using AIBOs to increase diversity in undergraduate CS programs • NSF funded study • Develop new course centered on AIBO • Increase interest to study CS and awareness of impact of robotic technology • Study conducted at U of M, Augsburg College, and Berea College (Kentucky)
Your role in the study • Collect your opinions at various times during the semester via questionnaires • Keep track of IDs to correlate questionnaires • An external evaluator will process and keep the raw data. Records will be private. Each time we do a questionnaire it will be mailed directly to her • Participation is voluntary. You can withdraw at any time
IRB Approval • Study approved by IRB (Institutional Review Board) • IRB reviews projects which require human studies to ensure they are not exposed to undue risk and they give uncoerced informed consent to participation
Questions • Structure, organization, style • Major results • Any surprise? • Find out • Where published? • CHI • SIGCHI • ACM • IEEE • Authors
Fact Finding • Find out • Where published? • What is CHI? • What is SIGCHI? • What is ACM? • What is IEEE? • Who are the authors?
Lab on Thursday • Where: in EE/CS 2-140 • You need your U card to get in. • We’ll continue using URBI, a scripting language that can be used either with a memory stick or with the wireless network.