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L6: Interview Model Papers (pdf, video)

Lecture6-Interviews-Examples

In this lecture we continue our exploration of interviews by dissecting seven exemplar research papers that make good use of the qualitative interview method. We compare and contrast the type of research questions they ask; their overall study designs, including the role of interviews in those designs; and the specific steps part of their interview processes. Check out the slide deck for some observations on why these seven papers were great.

In the beginning we workshopped the interview guide on research collaboration / collaborative paper writing we left off with last time.

Example Papers

Grinter, R. E., & Palen, L. (2002). Instant messaging in teen life. In Proceedings of the 2002 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW) (pp. 21-30).

Cherubini, M., Venolia, G., DeLine, R., & Ko, A. J. (2007). Let’s go to the whiteboard: How and why software developers use drawings. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) (pp. 557-566).

Wash, R. (2010). Folk models of home computer security. In Proceedings of the Sixth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) (pp. 1-16).

Dabbish, L., Stuart, C., Tsay, J., & Herbsleb, J. (2012). Social coding in GitHub: transparency and collaboration in an open software repository. In Proceedings of the ACM 2012 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW) (pp. 1277-1286).

Tausczik, Y. R., Kittur, A., & Kraut, R. E. (2014). Collaborative problem solving: A study of Math Overflow. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (pp. 355-367).

Manotas, I., Bird, C., Zhang, R., Shepherd, D., Jaspan, C., Sadowski, C., Pollock, L., & Clause, J. (2016). An empirical study of practitioners’ perspectives on green software engineering. In 2016 IEEE/ACM 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (pp. 237-248). IEEE.

Barwulor, C., McDonald, A., Hargittai, E., & Redmiles, E. M. (2021). “Disadvantaged in the American-dominated internet”: Sex, Work, and Technology. In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) (pp. 931-936).