Scientific Work
Seminar on scientific methods for doctoral students
Schedule
Enrollment
The format of this course is a lecture series with mandatory participation. There are no exceptions to the mandatory attendance, but every participant is entitled to miss one lecture without it affecting the grade. Every additional missed lecture will reduce the grade by one degree. A missed lecture can be replaced by a written exercise on the topic of the lecture, and must be arranged with the lecturer whose lecture was missed.
Doctoral curriculum at TU Graz (Helic)
- Legal foundation of PhD studies
- Application to doctoral studies
- Curriculum of the doctoral program
- Role of the Doctoral School
- Role of the advisor
- Rights of the student and of the advisor
- What is a dissertation
- What is a defense
Philiosophy of Science (Wotawa)
- Wissenschaftsgeschichte
- Philosophische Modelle und Grundlagen
- Begriff der Informatik
- Wissenschaftliche Ethik
- Plagiate
The craft of scientific reading and writing (Posch KC)
These: "Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten ist ein Handwerk" (und damit erlernbar).
- Schreiben und aktives Lesen sind ein durchgehendes Merkmal bei der wissenschaftlichen Arbeit. Vom Anfang an.
- Schreiben ist nicht notwendigerweise eine einsame Tätigkeit.
- Wie überliste ich als Schreiber den faulen Leser?
Peer review (Helic)
- What is peer review, and why do we need it
- Workshops, conferences and journals
- The role of dissemination and networking
- Citation indices, impact factors and other rankings
- Least publishable unit
- How to perform peer review
- How to survive peer review
Research Methodologies in Computer Science (Schmalstieg)
- Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten in versch. Disziplinen
- Formal vs empirisch
- Analytisch vs holistisch
- Grundlagen- vs Anwendungsforschung
- Experimente und Reproduzierbarkeit
Proposals and Projects (Schmalstieg)
- The role of management in research
- Financial structure of university groups
- What is a paper and what is a proposal
- Types of projects and proposals
- Sources of funding (national, EU)
An Academic Career (Bloem)
- Career planning
- Evaluation
Human Computer Interaction Research (Duenser, Schmalstieg)
This collection is extra material for PhD students working in HCI
- Designing User Studies (Duenser) pdf
- Analyzing User Study Data (Duenser) pdf
- Critique of Quantitative Methods in HCI (Schmalstieg) pdf
References
- Patterson's "How to Have a Bad Career In Research/Academia"
- Booth et al.: The Craft of Research; Univ. of Chicago Press; 2003.
- Alley: The Craft of Scientific Writing; Springer; 1996.
- Hamming "You and Your Research" http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
- Rota "Ten Lessons I Wish I'd Been Taught" www.ams.org/notices/199701/comm-rota.pdf
- The Researcher's Bible. Alan Bundy and Ben du Bolay and Jim Howe and Gordon Plotkin http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/bundy/how-tos/resbible.html
- Elisabeth Wagner. How to survive peer review
- John Woodwark. How to run a paper mill. http://atenea.etsimo.uniovi.es/docs/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=pmill.pdf
- How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper. Roy Levin and David D. Redell
- Jim Kajiya. How To Get Your SIGGRAPH Paper Rejected. http://www.siggraph.org/publications/instructions/rejected
- Henry Lieberman. The Tyranny of Evaluation. http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/Misc/Tyranny-Evaluation.html
- Olsen, D. R. 2007. Evaluating user interface systems research. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual ACM Symposium on User interface Software and Technology (Newport, Rhode Island, USA, October 07 - 10, 2007). UIST '07. ACM, New York, NY, 251-258.
- D L Parnas and P C Clements: A rational design process: How and why to fake it. IEEE Trans. Softw. Eng. 12(2):251-257, 1986.
