Comments | laurenhat: startup madness and awesomeness!

laurenhat

startup madness and awesomeness!

Aug 29, 2009 01:50

So, I still totally intend to finish my travelogue eventually. But in the meantime, let me tell you about what I've been up to since arriving safely in the Bay Area. (Er, sorry -- I guess there should have been a spoiler alert for the end of my travelogue there ( Read more... )

jobs, grad school, headlamp

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tyopsqueene August 29 2009, 10:10:43 UTC

Good luck with it; it does sound like a great idea.

laurenhat August 29 2009, 18:11:34 UTC

Thank you!

trom August 29 2009, 12:03:26 UTC

That's a great idea! When you are ready to start building the actual app, drop me a line, I'd be delighted to help make sure it's secure so you don't accidentally unleash everyone's data to the world.

laurenhat August 29 2009, 18:16:40 UTC

Thanks so much! It would be great to have your expertise in dealing with privacy issues.

therealjae August 29 2009, 16:31:27 UTC

This excites me! Yay!

One suggestion, though: the language you used in your survey ('participants') was better, I think, than the language you use here ('subjects'). When researchers talk about 'subjects', that screams "oh, they don't mean YOUR kind of research" to people like me.

Unless you don't actually mean my kind of research, in which case carry on. But then you might want to disregard my survey results. :-)

-J

laurenhat August 29 2009, 18:19:54 UTC

Ooh, thanks for the feedback. Does "subjects" imply psych research to you?

therealjae August 29 2009, 18:21:21 UTC

Well, yes, but also any kind of research where you do something TO someone. (My research is just about recording conversation, mostly.)

-J

laurenhat September 1 2009, 00:06:58 UTC

Ah, right, that makes sense! Also, "informants" makes me giggle and think of spies or police informants, which is awesome -- I wish we used that term in our research. :)

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ex_serenejo August 29 2009, 18:19:51 UTC

Wow, cool. We run a study every semester that's part of our grant, etc. One thing we have to have in our survey/study software is that it is completely accessible to visually impaired people.

laurenhat August 29 2009, 18:22:20 UTC

Oh, thanks for the info! That's a whole set of issues/features we hadn't thought about yet.

ex_serenejo August 29 2009, 18:37:31 UTC

Sure, and there are folks in my office who will probably be happy to test that in your final product.

hitchhiker August 29 2009, 21:38:50 UTC

ooh, good luck! sounds like a great idea for a startup.