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Grant Program
About the IA Progress Grants Program
Each year, the Information Architecture Institute awards two USD $1,000 Progress Grants. The purpose of the program is twofold:
- to encourage researchers and practitioners to investigate IA-specific issues, and
- to publicize useful work that furthers the information architecture body of knowledge.
Want to submit, or learn more about this year's initiative? Read more here.
2009 Grant Recipients
The IA Institute is proud to announce the two winning proposals of the Progress Grants for 2009! We had a number of fascinating proposals that represented hard work and innovative thinking from an international body of applicants. We found ourselves wishing we had even more grants to give away, but the jury had to narrow it down to just two:
Neha Modgil of Mumbai, India
"Emotional Scale" - Measuring User Feedback in Rural India
Neha's paper, "Emotional Scale" - Measuring User Feedback in Rural India , explores some of the drawbacks of Likert Scale, a widely used statistical tool for measuring attitudes, emotions, opinions and feelings. It is observed consistently and extensively by social researchers that Likert scale is not understood uniformly by various people across various regions of the world. Major reasons being levels of literacy and education, differences in perception of the terminology (good, very good, bad, very bad), avoidance of giving extreme responses (tendency to give safer responses than the genuine responses owing to social desirability).
This study attempts to gather responses on Culture specific scale which is devised as an alternate to the regular Likert scale, in rural and semi-urban India. It further attempts to provide a possible solution to the problem.
Download Neha's paper on "Emotional Scale" - Measuring User Feedback in Rural India.
Javier Velasco-Martin of Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Exploring Intimate Self Exposure in Social Media
Javier's study seeks to understand how we are sharing information in Social Media, and with whom. The research, while funded in part by the IA Institute, is part of his PhD project; therefore, we anticipate that his paper will take a bit longer to release, as it conforms to the University of North Carolina academic schedule.
You are invited to participate in this research study comparing tools of Internet communication. This online survey should not take more than 20 minutes to complete, and you will be eligible for receiving one of two Amazon.com Gift Cards. Please take a moment at your convenience to respond this survey and contribute to science. Feel free to share this invitation with your friends as well.
To participate in this study please visit http://www.unc.edu/~jvelasco/2010smsurvey/
Thanks in advance for your participation!
And congratulations, Neha and Javier!
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