PhD Diaries on Mathematical Dialogues

Try to get a second camera and lights and directional mike maybe.

posted by LHL @ 3:52 PM 0 comments

Today - Got K. A. to let me into the maths for acousitcs summer school at Southampton. He seemed very positive. I can go to a meeting on 1 3th June to meet them all. Talk to staff and see venue maybe.

Actual summer school is in July 13th - 18th. Brilliant. get cracking with video and audo stuff!

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Oh God I got involved in too many side issues: Computer Aided Assessment, Maths and programming languages. Now I have my appraisal coming up. Scared or what? I dont feel that I have contributed to the group very much.

I did a network group yesterday with Celayne and Paul K and Steve M and Dominic H. This was productive as Celayne talked a bit about her PhD. She did field work in Nepal and talked about the process of being there for months with only an occasional letter from her supervisor. Then making sense of the data as she wrote up. Descriptive and linking ideas came at this stage.

posted by LHL @ 3:49 PM 0 comments

Today collected marking and went thru email. Spoke to CPT about paper he emailed n=me about Zack and ? he says he showed it to me before I went away to naples.

posted by LHL @ 12:56 PM 0 comments

COnference / journal home for CAA paper for DW

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Did some poking about to find details of author guidelines for Computers and Education so i can submit a paper there.

posted by LHL @ 3:41 PM 0 comments

OK so today I talked to Martin C. about doing the Mathtype study
We decided to do a quick and focussed study using Mathtype and 2 other products for comparison. Efofex and say MathCAD.

He suggested we hired a lab at UCL or NPL now called circo usability and paid people. Use screen recordings / talk trus and videoing participants/sessions.

Good idea - sent him my stuff from Trieste and will revisit my paperwork - do this after the naples trip on Thursday.
Should get engineering and maths staff and some school teachers - throw in some industrial users for balance if we can get some retured ones or authors of maths books perhaps.




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posted by LHL @ 3:40 PM 0 comments

maths teaching site good fun

posted by LHL @ 4:45 PM 0 comments

teaching children maths Journal publisher with useful list

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MathReader for Windows
Reader for mathematica and publicon for those without the products

posted by LHL @ 10:15 AM 0 comments

I found out that ACT-R is a cognitive architecture - and software to help compare data.
see link to ACT-R site

posted by LHL @ 9:49 AM 0 comments

Yesterday, Janet told me that there was an eye movement man called Lohse. I tracked down his paper on eye movements and advertising. He was at the university of Pensylvannia Wharton labs but now has moved via Mackinley and co's TomorrowLab somewhere I thnk.

Also got the Larry's Speakeasy book on spoken mathematics. (Blind mathematician)

posted by LHL @ 9:25 AM 0 comments

Wrote a long email to PT saying how sorry I was and putting my work into context. Have a record of this too.

Hope he reads it. he might even feel sorry for me and give me some software or money.

posted by LHL @ 3:16 PM 0 comments

PhD Diaries on Mathematical Dialogues
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edit your blog:

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http://www.darrouzet-nardi.net/bonnie/TOCHI.html

Call for papers
Special issue of ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction (TOCHI)
On Social Issues
Editors: Matt Jones (University of Waikato), Bonnie Nardi (Agilent Technologies) & Elizabeth Mynatt (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Deadline for submissions: May 31, 2003

posted by LHL @ 3:10 PM 0 comments

Use eye movement kit to look at use of equations tools. Proper focused research.

Go home and set up vido camera and try it now.

posted by LHL @ 1:40 PM 0 comments

OK so I've now downloaded .2 papers by Dario and visited his web pages. Now to read and comment on them.
I also thanked Dr. K.R. for putting me onto this work whichis indeed useful as Dario researched equations and eye movement. Thank goodness I found something directly relevant.

posted by LHL @ 1:11 PM 0 comments

Personal diaryPhoned my mother to wish her happy birthday for yesterday. She went on for half an hour about how wonderful it was to get a bouquet from Francis and how her she only had 2 cards on the day now her friends had died. Also she got cards early and late from others.**********

posted by LHL @ 9:02 AM 0 comments

Early in day - 9am already feel better about work:
Had idea about eye movements that I got from book on dyslexia. relate this to equation reading.
Wrote last week to the researcher mentioned in the book -
Had reply from Dr K.R. (the researcher mentioned in Reading,Writing and Dyslexia by Andrew Ellis

He published a paer ifn Psychological Bulletin 1998 and I have now obtained a copy.

posted by LHL @ 8:05 AM 0 comments

Today I felt only relief. No Design Science project. No big JISC project. Just the PhD and papers to write.

Concentrate hard now - get data by videoing teachers.
Call up people you know and blag your way into it!

James Denholm-Price contacted me about MSc student who did useful Flash Maths graphics stuff. have put him in contact with Chris. Arrange place for meeting NOW!

posted by LHL @ 4:31 PM 0 comments

http://www.pss.st/librarium.shtml
Useful palm software that works with Endnote.
Pay by Paypal - so look up user name!

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