Yesterday ended well on the research front, thankfully! I went downtown last night to meet up with some lovely ladies for dinner and drinks. We were done by 8 so I headed over to my office to get some work done on the references in the VISOR I report. I managed to get quite a few of the entries printed and ordered those things that I didn't have access to through ILL. The library closed fairly early last night, so I didn't have time to do the photocopying of non-e available things. I did manage to picked up a book from the 'berry I was interested in looking at on qualitative research methods, however. Finally, I nearly completed the reading in Poole's Theories of the Middle Range last night. I am on the methodology chapter, which I think is going to be enough for my needs. Middle range theories are those that fall between completely detail oriented practice-based ideas and the abstract uber concepts, and they are developed using grounded theory methods. Glaser and Strauss' Discovery of Grounded Theory is one of the two books Poole mentions as being most important to his ideas about theory. Now this is a nice thing since I had planned on using grounded theory for my model construction.
I am still having difficulties with recruitment. Blah. It is so funny that the artists and architects have no interest in participating in the study. I have sent emails out to other people who might be helpful in recruitment so hopefully the participant god/desses will shine down upon me soon!
It is nearly noon now and I don't have too much time to work today, but I thought I might at least skim through the rest of the visual literacy book I ILLed and take some notes. There are some interesting ideas in several of the papers in the book that I think might help with the cognition and perception areas of my dissertation. If I can get through those I will be a very happy woman.
The list:
1. Skim/read/annotate pertinent parts of the visual literacy materials.
2. Update my web page.
3. Work on the SIG-AH web site.
Ok, time to get cracking!
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