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Reporting research

Reporting research. Where to report it. 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.

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Reporting research

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  1. Reporting research Where to report it Dr Paul Vickers

  2. 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 Dr Paul Vickers

  3. 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… Dr Paul Vickers

  4. 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 Dr Paul Vickers

  5. 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!) Dr Paul Vickers

  6. 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 Dr Paul Vickers

  7. 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 Dr Paul Vickers

  8. 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 Dr Paul Vickers

  9. 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 Dr Paul Vickers

  10. 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 Dr Paul Vickers

  11. 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 Dr Paul Vickers

  12. Conferences • 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. • 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. • 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. • 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. • 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. Dr Paul Vickers

  13. Journals & magazines • Vickers, P. and Alty, J.L. Using Music to Communicate Computing Information. Interacting with Computers, 14 (5), 2002. 435-456. • Vickers, P. and Alty, J.L. Musical Program Auralisation: A Structured Approach to Motif Design. Interacting with Computers, 14 (5), 2002. 457-485. • Vickers, P. and Alty, J.L. When Bugs Sing. Interacting with Computers, 14 (6), 2002. 793-819. • 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 Dr Paul Vickers

  14. Technical reports • 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. Dr Paul Vickers

  15. Seminars • When Bugs Sing: Adventures with Auditory External Representations of Programs, Seminar at Open University, Department of Computing, 17 October 2002 • Visualisation Using Audio Signal Processing, Seminar at Northumbria University, School of Engineering, 23 October, 2002 Dr Paul Vickers

  16. Workshops • Music and IT, EPSRC Workshop, Harrogate, 19-21 February, 2001 Dr Paul Vickers

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