[OSM-Science] Your kind advice is appreciated: focus group study on OSM Changeset Discussion interface design

[Levente Juhász]

Hello Youjin,

Very interesting research topic that has the potential to make an impact.

For community surveys, the OSM-science list is a great place, but it is not
monitored closely by a lot of people. Generally, announcing research
projects on large lists, like talk is discouraged, and so is contacting
individual mappers on a large scale. My recommendation would be to set up a
Wiki page for your research project (or describe it on your OSM profile
page, user diary etc.) where you explain WHAT and HOW you are planning to
do. This will increase trust and community members will be more likely to
participate. There is also the question of disseminating your results.
Since OSM is an open project and many members are firm believers of open
data/software/science, etc., generally they dislike if research done on OSM
(e.g. involving users) is published behind a paywall. So if you have any
ideas as to where you will be presenting your research, and if it will be
open access or not, that would also be helpful to disclose.

As for distributing your survey, apart from OSM-science, I would also
announce it on OSM Weekly (https://weeklyosm.eu/) and casual communication
channels such as Slack, Discord, forums, Twitter, etc. These are all
monitored by a lot of people so hopefully you will reach enough number of
people who's willing to participate.

I hope this helps.

Best,
Levente

On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 12:23 AM Youjin Choe <ychoe at student.unimelb.edu.au>
wrote:

> Dear members of OSM Science mailing list,
>
> My name is Youjin Choe, and I am a PhD candidate (Geomatics) at University
> of Melbourne, Australia. I am writing to get your kind advice on the
> potential focus group study on OSM changeset discussion interface design.
>
> My research topic is on the user conflict management process in the online
> geospatial data communities (which has mixed components of GIS, HCI, and
> organizational management). I have been using OSM as my case study, and so
> far I have conducted a Delphi survey on user conflict in OSM and analyzed
> user conflict management approaches from OSM changeset discussion. Based on
> the results of these studies, I have created a few mock-up interface
> designs that could be applied to OSM changeset discussion for managing user
> conflict.
>
> I am hoping to organize a two-round focus group study which aims to
> collect OSM user feedback on these mock-ups. I would appreciate your kind
> advice on whether this could be of interest to the OSM community, and if
> so, which communication channel is the most appropriate one to share more
> information about this study.
>
> Thank you very much for your time and consideration.
>
> Sincerely,
> Youjin Choe
>
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