Timing
I've been working since last summer on a project in which the goal is to design an intelligent agent-based decision support system for emergency crisis response. A lot of my recent writing has been aimed at that. Today [Adviser] showed me the March issue of the Communications of the ACM, a magazine that I have been thinking about sending some of my writing to and the theme of this issue was "Emergency Response Information Systems". I am devastated! I missed the opportunity to be part of it. Timing is so important in life
Tomorrow I am going to [Teaching hospital] and will stay there till the end of the week. [Co-researcher]'s husband will be staying with her tonight (don't ask me why he needs to accompany her on a two-hour drive and stay overnight) and I not excited about the prospective of sharing a bathroom with three people, one of them male. While I would centainly not mind sharing the apartment there will other male researchers, I don't like the idea of her bringing male guests to stay overnight, for no apparent reason. I try to be very professional in my work-life and expect others to be professional too. Oh well.
I intend to spend the rest of the week working on my dissertation research and the journal paper I am writing. I want to learn more about conducting ethnographic research, especially on how to observe people working in their natural environment without 1) feeling awkward and out of place, 2) making those I am observing conscious of my presence, and 3) getting overwhelmed with the novelty of the domain and information about the domain. The other things I would like to learn is how to take good notes while observing - that is what and how much information to note. I guess I'll learn by experience.
Tomorrow I am going to [Teaching hospital] and will stay there till the end of the week. [Co-researcher]'s husband will be staying with her tonight (don't ask me why he needs to accompany her on a two-hour drive and stay overnight) and I not excited about the prospective of sharing a bathroom with three people, one of them male. While I would centainly not mind sharing the apartment there will other male researchers, I don't like the idea of her bringing male guests to stay overnight, for no apparent reason. I try to be very professional in my work-life and expect others to be professional too. Oh well.
I intend to spend the rest of the week working on my dissertation research and the journal paper I am writing. I want to learn more about conducting ethnographic research, especially on how to observe people working in their natural environment without 1) feeling awkward and out of place, 2) making those I am observing conscious of my presence, and 3) getting overwhelmed with the novelty of the domain and information about the domain. The other things I would like to learn is how to take good notes while observing - that is what and how much information to note. I guess I'll learn by experience.
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