Pautas generales para el trabajo final

Introduction
Provide a quick overview of what you will be doing.

Motivation
Explain the problem you will be studying and why it is significant.

Literature review
Provide an overview of related research. This may be your most difficult task. Look through the papers we are reading in class for good examples. Your best friend will be google scholar (scholar.google.com). Try to find papers on related topics. You are unlikely to find something exactly matching what you are proposing to do (that's good), but there should be work that motivates your problem, that justifies your approach, and that provides information on similar work. If you find a relevant paper, check papers that cite it to find additional sources (see the Cited by... link under papers). To help you organize your references, you can use reference management software such as Zotero, which is free and compatible with Microsoft Word and Google Docs. Remember in order to read articles, you have to use TIMBO portal (Links to an external site.)

Research questions or Hypothesis
List either your research questions or the hypotheses you are going to test.

Participants
Explain how you would recruit and select participants for a study to be conducted after your pilot study. You should include any recruiting materials (e.g. flyers) you would use in the appendix.

Materials
Describe the materials (e.g. software, hardware) participants will interact with during the experiment.

Procedure
Describe where and how you will conduct the experiment. You should include a script of what you will tell participants in the appendix.

Design
List the independent (specify within vs. between subjects), dependent, control and random variables. Make sure you define them precisely. Explain how you will measure the dependent variable(s).

Appendix
The appendix must include any materials you would use to recruit participants (e.g. flyers), the script or protocol you will use during the experiment, the informed consent form, and any questionnaires you will use (e.g. demographic, satisfaction). See the QUIS (Links to an external site.) for an example of a user satisfaction questionnaire. The informed consent form must mention that the study you are conducting is under my supervision.