Hi all,

Hopefully this message is acceptable for this mailing list. Sorry for
cross postings and sorry if you receive this message more that once.

Would anyone like to come and play with some big shiny interactive
toys (e.g. large iPad like devices)?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/engineering-at-victoria/7679141/Oversized-tablet-is-a-touch-of-magic

My name is Craig Anslow and I am doing a PhD at Victoria University in
software engineering. I am looking for some software developers
(programming language agnostic) to come and test out my PhD research
software tool. If you are interested please let me know as that would
be very very much appreciated! Below is a blurb about what I am
looking for.

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Request for Participants: User Study on Tools for Co-Located Software
Development Teams

Most software development is conducted within teams and are quite
often in co-located environments. The tools used by these teams,
however,  are single-user focused (e.g. Eclipse). We are researching
ways to help improve software development teams collaborate and have
developed a multi-user,  multi-touch tool for teams to help analyse
their software. We want to observe how teams could potentially use
technology such as our tool for their own software development
projects. If you would like to participate in the user study please
contact us.

Details:
We require pairs of participants (software developers or software
architects, that are familiar with any programming languages) from the
same organisation who work in the same team and know each other to
voluntarily participate in the study. The study will take up to 90
minutes. A small reward will be given for participation in the study.

When and Where:
Anytime participants are available, either during or after work hours
or weekends, throughout October-December 2012. The study will take
place in the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Victoria
University of Wellington.

Contact Details:
Please contact Craig Anslow email [email protected] or phone 04 463
9998 to arrange a time to participate in the user study.

About:
This research is being conducted by Victoria University of Wellington
with Human Ethics Approval as part of the New Zealand Ministry of
Science and Innovation’s Software Process and Product Improvement
project.

No software from your organisation will be used. Instead a baseline of
example open source software will be used in the study. We are looking
at how participants use our tools and how they collaborate together as
a proof of concept,  not on how skilled participants are with our
tools. All participant’s and organisation details will be anonymous in
the reporting of the results.

The investigators on the project are Craig Anslow (PhD Student), Dr.
Stuart Marshall, Professor James Noble from the School of Engineering
and Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington, New
Zealand, and Professor Robert Biddle from the Department of Computer
Science, at Carleton University, Canada

More info:
http://homepages.ecs.vuw.ac.nz/~craig/Site/Study.html
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Many thanks.

Kind regards,
Craig

Craig Anslow
PhD Thesis Student
School of Engineering and Computer Science
Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand
+64 4 463 9998
http://homepages.ecs.vuw.ac.nz/~craig

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