TY - GEN
T1 - Studying studying - Academic life as the subject of commercial research
AU - Dix, Alan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM).
PY - 2017/5/6
Y1 - 2017/5/6
N2 - This paper offers a personal view on the interplay between the multiple roles of academic and commercial researcher and classroom teacher. A series of vignettes expose a variety of lessons. Some of the vignettes are about the way that being an educator of human-computer interaction has informed my practice as an academic researcher about HCI. Some are about the different ethical expectations when using educational practice as part of commercial research as opposed to academic research. We also see how the inside knowledge of being a practitioner researcher offers unique insights into rich data and how product orientation can expose gaps in research, surprisingly not so different from the way that teaching students does: with neither developers nor students can you hide fuzzy thinking behind long words. While there are conflicts that need to be carefully managed, both academic and commercial research have powerful synergies with educational practice.
AB - This paper offers a personal view on the interplay between the multiple roles of academic and commercial researcher and classroom teacher. A series of vignettes expose a variety of lessons. Some of the vignettes are about the way that being an educator of human-computer interaction has informed my practice as an academic researcher about HCI. Some are about the different ethical expectations when using educational practice as part of commercial research as opposed to academic research. We also see how the inside knowledge of being a practitioner researcher offers unique insights into rich data and how product orientation can expose gaps in research, surprisingly not so different from the way that teaching students does: with neither developers nor students can you hide fuzzy thinking behind long words. While there are conflicts that need to be carefully managed, both academic and commercial research have powerful synergies with educational practice.
KW - Academic life
KW - Educational technology
KW - Learning analytics
KW - Research ethics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85019625672&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3027063.3053685
DO - 10.1145/3027063.3053685
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85019625672
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 1030
EP - 1036
BT - CHI 2017 Extended Abstracts - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2017
Y2 - 6 May 2017 through 11 May 2017
ER -