… you’re reading a research paper and you find yourself writing “hilarious!” in the margin next to a paragraph that says:
“For instance, several of our subjects used terms for sexual anatomy to refer successfully to some of the figures. Such messages, in addition to producing correct identifications of their referents, probably lead their recipients to draw inferences about their authors’ personal qualities. The part of these speaker goals, and how they are balanced with the need to be informative, are areas for future work.” (p523)
from S. R. Fussell and R. M. Krauss (1989). Understanding friends and strangers: The effects of audience design on message comprehension. European Journal of Social Psychology, 19:509–525.
i am happy to report that i am no longer stuck! my experiment design is almost finished. i’ve ended up having to do some crazy complicated counterbalancing in the second half of the experiment. i barely have it straight in my own head, let alone writing it up so that somebody else can follow what i’m trying to do. that’s the next task to tackle! that plus getting my field study rolling and the looming CHI 2009 deadline should keep me sleep deprived at least until Friday…
oh! and my paper was accepted to the 4th Social Informatics SIG Research Symposium at ASIS&T 2008, which will take place on October 25 in Columbus, OH. it will be my first presentation of work that is part of my dissertation. yay!
