Editing Introduction to Graduate Research (Fall 2021) (section)

=== Week 4: 10.13 ===
'''Challenge: Where does the money come from?''' Finding funding and support for your work

'''Guests: HCI and Design'''
* Nabil Alshurafa
* Josiah Hester

==== Readings ==== 
* Alshurafa, N., Zhang, S., Romano, C., Zhang, H., Pfammatter, A. F., & Lin, A. W. (2021). Association of number of bites and eating speed with energy intake: Wearable technology results under free-living conditions. ''Appetite'', 167, 105653. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2021.105653 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2021.105653].
* Jasper de Winkel, Vito Kortbeek, Josiah Hester, and Przemysław Pawełczak. 2020. Battery-Free Game Boy. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies. 4, 3, Article 111 (September 2020), 34 pages. [https://doi.org/10.1145/3411839 https://doi.org/10.1145/3411839]. ([https://josiahhester.com/cv/files/gameboy_imwut_paper.pdf alternate PDF] via Professor Hester's personal site). Also, please check out [https://www.freethegameboy.info/ the project website].
* Read through the [https://www.nsfgrfp.org/applicants U.S. NSF GRFP web site]. Pay particular attention to the [https://www.nsfgrfp.org/applicants/application-components/ application components] and [https://www.nsfgrfp.org/applicants/merit-review-criteria/ merit review criteria]. (Also, you may want to review the [https://www.nsfgrfp.org/applicants/applicant-eligibility/ eligibility requirements])
* [https://canvas.northwestern.edu/courses/149253/files/folder/Example%20GRFP%20materials Example GRFP materials] (Canvas).
* ''Bonus reading (due to late posting by Aaron)'' Zhang, S., Zhao, Y., Nguyen, D. T., Xu, R., Sen, S., Hester, J., & Alshurafa, N. (2020). Necksense: A multi-sensor necklace for detecting eating activities in free-living conditions. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 4(2), 1-26. [https://doi.org/10.1145/3397313 https://doi.org/10.1145/3397313]

==== Assignments ====

The core of your assignment this week is to develop a draft fellowship application research statement modeled on the requirements and criteria for the U.S. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (more commonly known as the NSF GRFP). We will then conduct a round of peer feedback on these statements. 

* Draft a [https://www.nsfgrfp.org/applicants/application-components/statements/ Graduate Research Plan Statement] consistent with the NSF requirements and recommendations for GRFP applicants.
** The maximum length of the Graduate Research Plan Statement is two (2) pages. These page limits include all references, citations, charts, figures, images, and lists of publications and presentations. Times New Roman font for all text, Cambria Math font for equations, Symbol font for non-alphabetic characters (it is recommended that equations and symbols be inserted as an image), no smaller than 11-point, except text that is part of an image. Note that the NSF asks statements be no more than 2 pages, size 11 font.
** Upload your statement to Canvas as a pdf.

* Conduct a round of peer feedback on your draft statement with at least one other person in the class. I'll make a new set of small group assignments to facilitate this, but you are welcome to seek additional feedback (and I recommend you do whenever you plan to develop an actual fellowship or grant application!). It is often helpful to get input from people with some overlapping expertise/interests as well as people who know nearly nothing about your proposed area of research.

==== Additional resources ====

* Hargittai, Eszter. 2012. [https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2012/12/14/essay-how-learn-other-academics-cvs Learning from Others' CVs]. Inside Higher Ed: Ph.Do column, December 14. 
* Northwestern University [https://www.northwestern.edu/fellowships/index.html Office of Fellowships] is a useful resource. See, in particular, the office's [https://www.northwestern.edu/fellowships/find-fellowships/fellowship-finder/index.html fellowship finder tool].