I’ll fill this out more later, but I want to get the basics recorded. I ran another card sort test on the new array of measures with folks from the iSchool. I have enough solid measures in each function to Read More …
List of Original Items The items below relate to the following, which are Dittmar’s (2011) “identity-related functions of material goods” (slightly re-written by me for my testers): SIR was removed since it applies to a single individual and isolating one Read More …
Citation Norton, M. I., Mochon, D., & Ariely, D. (2012). The IKEA effect: When labor leads to love. Journal of consumer psychology, 22(3), 453-460. Other References Bergquest, M. (2003). Open-source software development as gift culture: Work and identity formation in an internet Read More …
I’m trying to build a set of measures for a set of latent variables regarding the identity functions of materials that I can apply to software developers and the things their teams create. After trying to write up a set, Read More …
I sent something like this to my committee in November, 2020. After spending too long hoping that the pandemic would turn around and that I’d be able to visit people in their group work spaces to perform interviews, I have Read More …
In the before-times, I was a geocacher. My wife and I released a set of five trackables (items tagged with a unique serial number for tracking purposes) on our wedding day. This is the history of Travel Bug #1 as Read More …
I’m teaching Front-End Web Development. The first assignment involves making a small Web page about a fictional character you admire. When I worked through the problem myself (I inherited the course from another lecturer) I used Henry Standing Bear (we’ve Read More …
I fell out of the habit of tracking progress, but I’m restarting as we transition from Spring Quarter to Summer Quarter. 2020-06-24 IMLS Grant Team: Weekly meeting (Zoom) IMLS Grant Team: Completed tasks assigned during the team meeting. Funding Search: Read More …
For the foreseeable future, I’ll be working from home due to the pandemic. This post will be updated daily (rather than having new blog posts daily) to help track my productivity. Read More …
In this short excerpt, we have software development methods expressed indirectly in terms that imply their sources are role identities, group identities, and material identities. Software methods are a reflection of the societal meaning that each individual project team member internalizes to create their own identities, and expose common elements of identity standards. Read More …