User:Ahernandez

Revision as of 05:32, 29 May 2018

Alberto Castro-Hernández

Alberto is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) at Miami University.

Dr. Castro-Hernández's research focus at the use of Natural Language Processing to identify group constructs in Global Software Development. He have organized collaborative projects between students from US, Mexico, Panama, United Kingdom, and Turkey.

His scholarly interest include Software Engineering, Natural Language Processing, and Data Mining.

Activities

Intro to IRC

Questions

How do people interact?

People interact mostly voluntarily (they are not asked directly) and they ask and follow the conversation as they wish. Each person can post one or more messages.

What is the pattern of communication? Is it linear or branched? Formal or informal? One-to-many, one-to-one or a mix?

The communication pattern is free. It follows an informal dialogue in a mix of one-to-many and one-to-one interactions. Replies can be directed to even current, previous or new conversations. The characteristic of replying to a previous conversations shows sometimes there is a "lag" between interactions.

Are there any terms that seem to have special meaning?

They used a lot of terms related to the applications they are working on. But the idea of the conversations is easy to understand.

Can you make any other observations?

The moderator takes notes of the conversation. Possibly this can be used as the source for a meeting minute. Also, the reply rate can affect the ability of the participants to follow the conversation(s) in the chat.

Why didn't Heidi and Darci's actions get picked up by the meetbot?

In both actions, their nick was not spelled correctly.

Channel Discussion Observation

Server: irc.gnome.org

Channel: #a11y

Observations: After 1 hour of observation, there are no messages.

Experiment with my own channel