for CS PG Students

Welcome to the lab. Please read the following page for all details related to your work with us. Please consider changing this page with the most up-to-date information. If you have further questions, please contact either your supervisor,

@Diar Karim⁠

@Massimiliano Di Luca⁠

Project information for CS students can be found on canvas:

https://canvas.bham.ac.uk/courses/68012⁠

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General Expectations and Communication

Your supervisor expects you to commit an appropriate amount of time to your project work because this collaboration contributes a large part to your final grade.

You are expected to communicate clearly and regularly about your needs, goals and progress in writing.

When writing to lab members, it is important to copy in your supervisor for their records.

When replying to emails, please make sure you use the “Reply All” option, instead of the “Reply” option. This will ensure all relevant parties in the original email to you are involved continuously.

Following an in-person meeting you are expected to follow with an email with a brief summary or bullet points of the topics discussed and actions required by you, including all relevant parties in the email

When setting up a meeting with a lab member or your supervisor please ensure you turn up 5 minutes before the meeting time starts to ensure you gain proper access to the building or labs.

In case you cannot attend a meeting on time, please ensure all relevant parties are informed 1 hour before the meeting time.

All team members who have been given independent lab access, including PG students, need to have an induction to the lab, and this is achieved by reading this guide, especially the health and safety and lab access pages.

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Expectations for Running Experiments

Before running any experiments with actual participants, it is very important that several steps are taken well in advance:

Your ethics is in place and approved

The experiment has been tested and approved by your supervisor

You have collected data with pilot participants (lab members and peers)

You have analysed the pilot data and discussed the results with your supervisor

Lab spaces are booked using the VR lab calendar (send an invitation to vrlabbham@gmail.com)

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Expectations for writing your thesis

You are expected to produce a scientific piece of written work in the form of a journal article. This is where you will describe in detail the motivations for conducting your experiment, the background literature, your hypothesis, methods and report on your results and discussions

For a good grade, it is important that you work on a draft well in advance of the deadline

It would be preferable to use a standard template, as provided here →

Elsevier-template.doc.docx

2.2 MB

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You should discuss your thesis as much as possible with your supervisor, because this is what you are evaluated on for your final grade

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Timeline

Students should try to get the gist of their thesis outline ready during term 1, so that they can submit a contract and an ethics quiz. Please refer to the

Ethics⁠

page for info on the quiz.

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MSc Research Project Handbook 23-24.pdf

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