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

[Youjin Choe]

Dear Levente,

Thank you so much for your kind advice! I set up a Wiki page as you
recommended so that members of the Science mailing list (or any other OSM
users who are interested) can have a look:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Eugenia

Again, thanks so much for your recommendation.

Best,
Youjin

On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 12:54 AM Levente Juhász <jlevente89 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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