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