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stanford hci group / cs376 Research Jeffrey Heer · 21 April http://cs376.stanford.ed The goal of this course is for you, upon completion, to be able to undertake a research project of your own design. What is Research? What is Not Research? How do you tell the difference? What is the Relationship between research and design? Design as a domain of research study i.e., “What do designers do when they do design?” Design as a method of research inquiry i.e., using iterative exploration to produce knowledge What is the relationship between research and development? Basic-------------------------------------applied Basic -> applied -> development -> production Pasteur’s Quadrant Yes Use-inspired Basic Research (Pasteur) Pure Applied Research (Edison) No Quest for Fundamental Understa Pure Basic Research (Bohr) No Yes Considerations of Use? How can you get a research idea? Read a paper; find something they didn’t do Read a paper; find something you disagree with Have lots of experiences AIP MEMO 1 Emerging theory permits calculation of behavior. Computing tasks within early scope of theory. Computer science one-sided. Payoff for knowing how humans process. An Applied Psychology Unit would be ultimately profitable. Slide courtesy Stu Card Dual-Search Strategy An analogy: prove a mathematical theorem Bottom-up: start with known axioms and theories, derive implications Top-down: start with desired result and reason backwards Meet somewhere in the middle? Another example: intelligence analysis How would you prevent terrorist attacks? Big Project Big Idea Small Idea Small Project PhD as simulated annealing Herbert A. Simon (1916-2001) Psychologist, computer scientist, economist… Pioneer in AI and information processing psychology. Turing Award (1975) for “basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing.” Nobel Prize in Economics (1978) “for his pioneering research into the decisionmaking process within economic organizations.” Academic descendants include HCI