Hi all,

I hope everyone had another lovely summer week! In today’s post I will be addressing an overview of our final deliverable, authorship discussion, mentor meeting update, this weeks challenges, timeline update, and some fun things that were done since last Friday!

Final Deliverable(s):

Our absolute final deliverable(s) is a paper we are trying to submit to CHI and possibly a second paper that deals a bit more with Algorithms and the Machine Learning side of things (more likely for the student competition).

Authorship Discussion:

We discussed with Fernando and by September he would like to submit  a paper to CHI and he said we could be co-author’s on it. We will also be trying to submit a paper to the undergraduate research competitions as well.

Mentor Meeting Update:

Our mentor meetings have been going well, we are meeting up with Fernando a few times this week and have been making progress on multiple things. We have had some good iterations with our paper as well. This week we were able to shortly meet with Patrick our faculty mentor (the great traveler is back!) and hopefully next week we will be able to have another meeting with him to discuss all of our progress. I personally would like to schedule a quick meeting with him as well to discuss some grad school questions and a bit about his research.

This Weeks Challenges: 

Our major challengers this week included that of our paper, TreatYoSelf GuideBook & video, FB group activity somewhat finalization, and some other more minor things!

There was much iteration this week on our Paper going back and forth with our mentor Fernando and we made some good progress especially in our related work section.

Our TreatYoSelf guidebook and video included many iterations as well including getting correct terminology and phrasing down, making things visually appealing, and much more.

To check out the informative video select this link.

We have been having some trouble with PositiveLink recruitment, so we may have to switch it up and take a new direction on things (online forums).

Timeline Update: 

Key: Things that were slightly changed in the timeline are in italics.

Week 1: Get to know the basics of the ProHealth REU and meet other REU students and mentors!

Week 2: Have related work and methods outline done. Read and explore more about our specific project including transcribing, summaries, and starting to look at the data. Getting IRB confirmation and other accounts sorted.

Week 3: Draft for related work and methods and an outline for the introduction are due. Delve more into data analysis and finding major themes, along with looking into possible algorithms. Review Facebook activities and solidify what we will do in these activities. Start designing how we will present TreatYoSelf Drexel App (video and guidelines booklet). Will find out how recruitment from PositiveLink is going on 6/8/27. More reading.

Week 4: Outline for abstract, draft for introduction, and peer reviews for both related work & methods are due. Start designing an algorithm for our forum data. Meeting with Positive Link to discuss Facebook activities and if changes need to be made to them. Have almost finalized video and guidelines for TreatYoSelf app to be discussed and reviewed with other before meeting on Friday. Meeting with TreatYoSelf group on Friday 6/16/17 to discuss how we will be addressing their app to the Facebook group.  Possibly launch the Facebook group and distribute questionnaire and ice breakers.

Week 5: Draft for abstract & related work, peer review for introduction, methods finalized, and an outline for findings and discussion. Depending on PositiveLink’s recruitment, we will or will not launch the FB group this week. If it is launched we need to run our FB activities by PositiveLink and we’ll begin our questionnaire, introductions, and ice breakers.  Use TreatYoSelf’s groups critics to improve our video and guidelines. Solidify our algorithm for the forum data and start distributing it (maybe –> Depended on the data).  Draft our online professional presence. Finish up transcriptions and readings that were assigned. 

Week 6: Peer review for abstract, drafts for introduction, findings, & discussion, and a finalized related work (iteration, iteration, and more iteration). Receive peer review data and give more reviews. If FB group is launched continue with activities, introducing new ones such as ranking of problems or photo elicitation. Continue with forum stuff (not quite sure of the direction). Continue iterating with online professional presence and other deliverables (videos, etc.).

Week 7: Draft for abstract, finalized introduction, and peer review for findings & discussion. More…

Week 8: Peer review for abstract and drafts for findings & discussion. More…

Week 9: Finalized for abstract, findings, and discussion. More…

Week 10: Everything is camera ready!!!!

GRE Course Update: 

Last Saturday I completed the GRE Pre-Course practice test. It was long and a bit of a struggle at points, but it was great to see the formatting of the test and I felt like a learned a lot from it. I stuck around after both Tuesday and Thursday after class for office hours to discuss the essay prompts that I had wrote for the test and it was very helpful discussing my mistakes and how I can improve upon them.

Let the fun continue…

Last Saturday we were invited to one of the main REU coordinators home for the evening for some fun games and some amazing food! The night before we had a baking party with all of the REU students and had a really fun time. On Saturday it was nice to have some home cooked food and get to know everyone on the ProHealth IU team a bit more personally. Lastly, on Sunday we saw the new Wonder Woman Movie and I recommend it if you are into DC movies and comics.

 

Until next time…

Julia Dunbar 🙂