Reading list for Ahat lab folks

All these materials are available to lab folks in our library in one format or another. Electronic materials are password protected (to protect intellectual property, duh.) Ask if you don't know how to get access.

Quickstarts

Papers

• Mixed methods: positivists are from Mars, constructivists are from Venus, Raymond Lister, SIGCSE Bulletin, 37(4), 18-19, 2005. (this is a little light-weight, but will do until we find something more appropriate...)
• Sense-making theory and practice: an overview of user interests in knowledge seeking and use, Journal of Knowledge Management, Volume 2, Number 2, December 1998
• Diligence, Patience, and Humility, Larry Wall, in Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, available at http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565925823/ (the whole book is superb, but this chapter is critical)

Books

• Modern Perl Programming by Saltzman, Prentice Hall. A great first perl book
• Object-Oriented Programming in Python, by Goldwasser and Letscher, both because it does a great job teaching python, but even more because it does a great job teaching functional objects, which are key in modern programming languages.

In more depth

Papers

• On “Technomethodology”: Foundational Relationships between Ethnomethodology and System Design, Paul Dourish and Graham Button, in Human Computer Interaction, 13(4), 395–432, 1998.
• our earlier papers, the Adaptive Hypermedia papers (ACUT and Unobtrusive series), the Research Methods papers and the Pattern Recognition papers, as they are all inter-related, at a minimum.
• Digital libraries and knowledge disaggregation: the use of journal article components, Ann Peterson Bishop, DL '98: Proceedings of the third ACM conference on Digital libraries, 29-39, 1998.
• Multiperspective digital libraries: the implications of constructionism for the development of digital libraries, Kimmo Tuominen, Sanna Talja and Reijo Savolainen, J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 54(6), 561-569, 2003.
• From the Mind's Eye of the User: The Sense-Making Qualitative-Quantitative Methodology, Brenda Dervin, in the Sense-Making Methodology Reader, 269-292, Hampton Press, 2003.
• Perspectives on Methodology in HCI Research and Practice, Linda Tetzlaff and Robert L. Mack, in Designing Interaction: Psychology at the Human-Computer Interface, John Millar Carrol and J Long, Eds, 286-314, Cambridge University Press, 1991
• On studying information seeking methodologically: the implications of connecting metatheory to method, Brenda Dervin, Information Processing and Management, 35, 727-750, 1999.
• Data Exploration Using Self-Organizing Maps (Doctoral Dissertation - see especially excellent explication and comparative discussion of exploratory data analysis techniques), Samuel Kaski, Helsinki University of Technology, 1997.
• Methods and techniques for the evaluation of user-adaptive systems, Cristina Gena, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 20 (1), 1-37, 2005.
• Informal education by computer -- ways to computer knowledge, C.J. Tully, Computers and Education, 27 (12), 31-43, 1996.
• Zimmerman's paper

Books

• Adaptable and Adaptive Hypermedia Systems, edited by Sherry Y. Chen and George D. Magoulas, IRM Press, 2005.
• Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia, edited by Peter Brusilovsky, A. Kobsa and J. Vassileva, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998.
• Agile Software Development Ecosystems by Jim A. Highsmith, Addison-Wesley, 2002.
• _How to Break Software: ..._" by James A. Whittaker and various other folks. This entry refers not to a single book but to a series of books. Several of the titles include 'Testing' as a key word, however, the books teach a far more fundamental cognitive computing skill, which is to develop an internal fault model for various kinds of computing systems. Absolutely invaluable.
• Interaction Design: Beyond Human Computer Interaction, 2nd ed. by Helen Sharp, Jenny Preece, Yvonne Rogers, Wiley and Sons, 2007.
• Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, edited by Chris DiBona, Mark Stone and Sam Ockman, O'Reilly Press, 1999, available at http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565925823/.
• Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook
• Plans and Situated Actions, 2nd ed., by Lucy Suchman, Cambridge University Press.
• Researching Information Systems and Computing, by Briony J Oates, Sage, 2005 (get the paperback.)
• Sense-Making Methodology Reader: Selected Writings of Brenda Dervin by Brenda Dervin, Empirical Press, 2003.
• Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace (9th Edition), by Joseph M. Williams, Longman, 2006.
• The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity by Alan Cooper, Sams, 2004.
• The Social Life of Information, 2nd edition (2002, Harvard University Press) by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid. A fascinating read, particularly post the financial crash. Brown and Duguid discuss how information is a social construct, and how computer scientists and computer science don't take that reality into account in the design of computing artifacts.
• Understanding Digital Libraries by Michael Lesk, Elsevier Science & Technology Books, 2004.
• Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind, by George Lakoff, University of Chicago Press. 1990.
• Writing Up Qualitative Research, 2nd Ed., by Harry Wolcott, 2001, Sage Pubs. Get the 2nd edition, for the 'Linking Up' chapter. The book comes as close as it gets to a book that talks about how to do the kinds of writing needed in exploratory labs, agile software methods, mixed methodology research in computing, etc.

it's also helpful to read papers that give examples of methodology, especially when used appropriately in our domains, e.g.

• Research Methods for Revealing Patterns of Mediation, Shaun Slattery, SIGDOC'03, 35-38, 2003.