This overview over group techniques in user research was written as report for the course “User Research Methods”. However, due to being sick / generally being overworked / this thing being written in a deadline-sprint, your mileage may vary and there's certainly better resources – just as a disclaimer and to take away the answer to “wtf was up with pheara here?!”

With that out of the way and without further ado: Group Techniques.
As this is more a category of loosely connected methods formulated for very different reaons in different situations, I'll go over the ones mentioned in the lecture slides one by one and try to compare them in the process. The methods are as follows:

• Focus Groups
• Fishbowl
• Bar Camp
• World Cafe
• Breakout Sessions
• Open Space (Technology)

Tags:  User Research Methods

Diese letzte Abgabe für Grundlagen der Kommunikations und Medientherie beschäftigt sich mit den Problematiken des stark individualisierten Medienkonsums, i.e. Filterblasen bzw Echokammern. Die anderen Abgaben finden sich hier.

Material:

• Cass R. Sunstein: Republic.com 2.0, S. 1-45, Princeton 2007
• Eli Pariser: Videodokumentation, TED-Talk Beware online „filter bubbles“

Tags:  media and communication theory

Die dritte Abgabe zur VU Grundlagen der Kommunikations- und Medientheorie an der TU Wien. Die anderen finden sich hier.

Material:

R. Burkart: Kommunikationswissenschaft. Grundlagen und Problemfelder. Umrisse einer interdisziplinären Sozialwissenschaft, S. 516-520, Stuttgart 2002

Zusatztext zum Vertiefen und Nachlesen: B. Brecht: Radiotheorie. In: B. Brecht “Schriften zur Literatur und Kunst 1, 1920-1932”, S. 119-140, Frankfurt a. M. 1967

Tags:  media and communication theory

I've written (and held) a presentation on “Grounded Evaluation of Visualizations” (for the course “Evaluation of Visualizations”). In the linked reveal.js-presentation you can press 'S' to see the speaker's notes and '?' to see other available commands.

Tags:  visualization evaluation ,  qualitative research

Peacememories and I are working on a haskell-based CMS-frontend for static site generators like hakyll (see project on github). For this we need a text-editor for authoring markdown. Ideally it should allow both editing as rich text and markdown and is small enough not to incur severe page-load-performance costs.

For this, I've compiled this small comparison table, that some of you might find useful for their projects:

Tags:  js libraries