how to find, read, write about and reference research papers?

HOW TO FIND, READ, WRITE ABOUT AND REFERENCE RESEARCH PAPERS?

Find papers

Where to look? Conferences Journals Online: people, labs References in papers read Conference organizers, journal editors

E.g. Pervasive committees Conference website links, e.g.:

Links to previous conferences: Ubicomp Proceedings online: Automotive UI

Your advisor’s and collaborators’ suggestions

Find papers

IEEE Xplore ACM Digital Library Others on UNH Library website

(print & electronic) People’s websites (my list)

Find papers

Where not to look (with few exceptions)? Sales brochures Company white papers Online tutorials News Blogs

Find papers

So, what are some of those exceptions? Company white paper:

You trust the company White paper free of advertisement

News story, blog post: initial lead, not final reference: My post on ETRA 2010 paper Albrecht Schmidt post on energy harvesting Videos that make you think:

Videos that make you think

Next:

http://johnnylee.net/

Read

Take notes: On paper (print out paper?) In electronic form (e.g. Word document) –

eventually you’ll need this! Reference Manager?

Read: how many?

Signs that you have a good overview: See references to papers you’ve read You expect, and find, a reference in a

sentence/section Recurring references over multiple papers References cover decades References up to date (including very

recent conference papers)

Write about

What matters? What has been done? Similarities Dissimilarities

Write about

What has been done? “I’m not working on something that’s

already been done.” “I am building on other’s work.”

Write about

Similarities, e.g.: “At least parts of my work fit into what we

all accept as be correct.” Approach Results

Write about

Dissimilarities, e.g.: “I have a contribution to make.” Results Explanations

Reference

What matters? Author(s):

Helps identify relationships between papers Helps evaluate quality (e.g. use h-score)

Title: Topic relevance

Publication: Helps evaluate quality (e.g. use h-score, impact

factor) Year

Relevance Coverage

Reference

Format: Strictly prescribed by publication Often downloadable from database (e.g.

IEEE) Reference Manager, MS Word 2007

Reference

Website: Eaton, K. Navigon’s 8100T GPS Has 3D

Terrain-View Maps. http://gizmodo.com/5081866/navigons-8100t-gps-has-3d-terrain+view-maps. Nov. 10, 2008. Retrieved 5/30/2009.

Reference

Technical report: Kun, A.L., Paek, T., Medenica, Z., Oppelaar,

J.E., Palinko, O. The Effects of In-Car Navigation Aids on Driving Performance and Visual Attention. Technical Report ECE.P54.2009.3, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of New Hampshire, 2009.

Reference

Conference paper Porathe, T., Prison, J. Design of Human-Map

System Interaction. CHI, 2008.

Reference

Journal paper: Strayer, D. and Johnston, W. Driven to

Distraction: Dual-Task Studies of Simulated Driving and Conversing on a Cellular Telephone. Psych. Science, 12(5), 462-466, 2002.

Reference

Book: Tavel, P. 2007 Modeling and Simulation

Design. AK Peters Ltd.

Hirsch’s h-score

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:H-index-en.svg