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You can view the last 5 news articles posted to the CTIE site here. You can also view past articles in our monthly archives below.
| A Case Study about IE Lab(TM) |
| Posted @ 15:49:00 CDT by gary |
http://www.techsmith.com/morae/casestudy/missouriuniversity.asp
Techsmith Corporation has prominently profiled the IE Lab (TM) experience in usability evaluation of the MU undergraduate admissions website on the their MORAE website. |
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| I3 Project Featured in IATS "TechKnowledge" Sept 2005 |
| Posted @ 14:10:00 CST by gary |
Social Networking Tool
The University of Missouri received a $600 thousand dollar grant from the National Science Foundation to develop innovative methods of networking collaboration. The resulting project, I³—called "I-cubed"—features a Web-based tool that allows entrepreneurs to connect virtually. Currently, it is being run by SISLT.
"I was in the position to broker deals between faculty members or scientists, and engineers who are seeking to be out in the business world, leveraging innovations and federal grant opportunities, and in doing so I discovered that the network for information transfer was really not there," says Mike Nichols, principal investigator on the project and director, Industrial Relations, MU Office of Research. "Even as I talked to people on the campus one person would not know what another person down the hall was doing."
The project, in its third year, can be used with a large population to build teams of people and pull together networks that the users couldn't build on their own.
"We're going to be integrating it with the campus more and more as we move along," says Nichols.
Aaron Moss, systems support analyst, SISLT, says the next phase of the project will make the system more robust. "Right now we're gearing up to start work on version two so we're doing a complete redesign of the system because it was built very quickly to answer important research questions in entrepreneurship." |
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| I3 Project Featured in IATS "TechKnowledge" Sept 2005 |
| Posted @ 14:10:00 CST by gary |
Social Networking Tool
The University of Missouri received a $600 thousand dollar grant from the National Science Foundation to develop innovative methods of networking collaboration. The resulting project, I³—called "I-cubed"—features a Web-based tool that allows entrepreneurs to connect virtually. Currently, it is being run by SISLT.
"I was in the position to broker deals between faculty members or scientists, and engineers who are seeking to be out in the business world, leveraging innovations and federal grant opportunities, and in doing so I discovered that the network for information transfer was really not there," says Mike Nichols, principal investigator on the project and director, Industrial Relations, MU Office of Research. "Even as I talked to people on the campus one person would not know what another person down the hall was doing."
The project, in its third year, can be used with a large population to build teams of people and pull together networks that the users couldn't build on their own.
"We're going to be integrating it with the campus more and more as we move along," says Nichols.
Aaron Moss, systems support analyst, SISLT, says the next phase of the project will make the system more robust. "Right now we're gearing up to start work on version two so we're doing a complete redesign of the system because it was built very quickly to answer important research questions in entrepreneurship." |
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| Information Experience Laboratory (TM) News |
| Posted @ 13:57:00 CDT by gary |
eIRB usabilty testing
April 16-22, 2005
IRB had a full recording session of the research proposal application process in the lab on April 16-22. Students from the Human Information Behavior class recorded their user interface with the eIRB system. Web interface of the IRB staff member going over the submitted application was also recorded with the Morae. The recording will be used to change the eIRB user interface in future.
New Software
March 20, 2005
The IE Lab purchased the Morae, new usability software. It is all-digital, software-based solution that records and synchronizes user and system data for usability analysis of software, Web sites, Intranets and e-Business applications. Morae will enable students and faculty members to record any activity taking place on the user’s screen, user’s video through a web camera, browser events, web page changes, mouse events, every keystroke that user makes and windows events, such as the window/dialog getting focus, opening, closing and resizing. In addition to it, the new software gives chance for remote viewing and sharing results with other team members. More information about Morae.
About the Lab
The Information Experience Laboratory (IE Lab) is a usability research and testing facility at the College of Education, The School of Information Science and Learning Technologies (SISLT) of the University of Missouri-Columbia (MU). The IE Lab is located in the Center for Technology Innovations in Education (CTIE).
The mission of the IE Lab is to provide a state of the art usability laboratory to foster, support, and advance research, development and teaching by enhancing user experience with the various types of information systems developed by educational, non-profit and private organizations.
The primary users of the IE Lab are the faculty and students associated with SISLT and CTIE. The IE Lab is also collaborating on projects with various MU campus-wide organizations.
I3 (Innovation Information Infrastructure) project had a recording session in the IELab on April 13, 2005. Recording will be used for video tutorial, which will help new I3 users navigate the site. I3 is a web-based social networking database currently being developed and promoted to entrepreneurs across the state.
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| AWE Project News Release |
| Posted @ 10:21:00 CDT by gary |
MU Researcher Examines the Small Number of Women in Engineering
COLUMBIA, Mo. — A constant challenge in the engineering field is successfully recruiting and retaining women. Recent studies show that women comprise only 20 percent of undergraduate engineering school enrollment nationwide and only 8.5 percent of the United State’s engineers. A new study by a researcher at the University of Missouri-Columbia found that women’s reported expectations and confidence drops as they study engineering, thus causing them to leave the field.
“Approximately 50 colleges and universities across the country have established Women in Engineering (WIE) programs to respond to the lack of women in the field." said Rose Marra, assistant professor of learning technologies at MU, who conducted the study with Barbara Bogue, former director of Penn State’s Women in Engineering program.
In the study, Marra collected survey responses from 202 undergraduate women studying engineering, some involved in WIE programs, at four institutions: Penn State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Texas-Austin and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute over the course of one year. The survey examined, among other things, feelings of self-efficacy and the sources of barriers and obstacles in obtaining an engineering degree.
While the results are preliminary, Marra found that women experienced significant drops in their confidence over the year she examined, but that the WIE members suffered less than those not involved in the program. In the coming year, Marra plans to increase the size of the study, examine the data by year in school and ethnicity status, and attempt to explain why there’s inconsistent evidence of the impact of participating in WIE programs.
“For these programs to be maximally effective, they must have access to validated assessment instruments for measuring the effectiveness of their recruitment and retention activities for WIE studies,” Marra said. “Such assessment results can provide the basis for the development and revamping of effective activities designed to meet program objectives and missions.”
Marra recently presented her findings at the American Society of Engineering Education’s Annual Conference and Exposition. The study is part of the National Science Foundation-funded Assessing Women in Engineering project.
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