{"595710":{"#nid":"595710","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Scott Wins Third Place in ACM Design of Communication Research Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELexie Scott, a third-year Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC) major placed third in the Special Interest Group at\u0026nbsp;the Design of Communication (SIGDOC) international undergraduate student research competition held August 11 - 13 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EScott presented a poster on her research: \u0026ldquo;A Case Study of the Continuous Course Lab (CCL) as an Alternative Model for Undergraduate Research in the Humanities.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EScott\u0026rsquo;s CCL model is distinctly different from traditional models of undergraduate research such as the apprenticeship model often used in STEM fields. A key difference is that the CCL model is course-based, which means that the research is conducted by enrolled students participating in a course and the research is continued from one semester to another. At the end of the semester, students write a report on their research findings and pass this on to the next group of students who pick up where the last class left off.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Scott, \u0026ldquo;The Lab model is particularly useful because students from multiple disciplines are taught humanities research methods and technical communication skills while they work on real-world problems.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EScott\u0026rsquo;s class worked on developing strategies to increase consumer knowledge of end user license agreements (EULAs), \u0026ldquo;those long documents that you never read but always agree to!\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESIGDOC is a special interest group of the\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.acm.org\/\u0022\u003E Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)\u003C\/a\u003E. This year\u0026rsquo;s SIGDOC conference theme was the impact on content and the design of user experiences in different contexts \u0026mdash; a theme that aligned well\u0026nbsp;with Scott\u0026rsquo;s case study on the Responsible End User License\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/reullab.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E REUL Lab\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We have been putting the CCL research model into practice here at the REUL Lab,\u0026rdquo; says\u0026nbsp;Scott, \u0026nbsp;who also works as\u0026nbsp;a research assistant in the Lab. \u0026ldquo;The Lab\u0026rsquo;s research focuses on making user agreements, privacy policies, and terms of service more accessible to readers. This project has been really inspiring to me because as an end user, I also benefit from the kind of research that the Lab undertakes.\u0026rdquo; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EREUL Lab was established in 2016 and is sponsored through the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center (DILAC) grant.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EReflecting on her work at the Lab and attending her first conference, Scott says, \u0026ldquo;Before taking the REUL Lab\u0026rsquo;s continuous course, I never thought I would be capable or even interested in doing research of my own. Now, because of the guidance I have been given by all of the Ivan Allen faculty involved, I had the amazing opportunity to present research at a conference! I would love for other undergraduates to be able to have this same experience.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELexie Scott, a third-year LMC major recently placed 3\u003Csup\u003Erd\u003C\/sup\u003E in the Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication (SIGDOC) undergraduate student research competition held in Halifax, Nova Scotia.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Lexie Scott, a third-year LMC major recently placed 3rd in the Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication (SIGDOC) student research competition held in Halifax, Nova Scotia. 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