Psychology

The Internet explosion and broad interest in collaborative technology have driven increased interest in the field of computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW). Historically, behavioral research on CSCW applications has reflected a strong influence from ethnomethodology. This article argues that the CSCW community should adopt a stronger orientation to other social science disciplines, particularly psychology. Greater attention to the psychological literature provides three benefits. First, psychologists offer well-validated principles about human behavior in group and organizational contexts that are relevant to CSCW research. Second, psychologists offer reliable and proven measures of human behavior that, if adopted by CSCW researchers, can provide a uniform basis for comparison across studies. Finally, psychologists offer data collection and analysis methods that identify salient and generalizable features of human behavior, which may lead to the development of universal principles of CSCW design.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/68835/2/10.1177_089443939801600106.pd

Nested multi-resolution PIV measurements of wall bounded turbulence at high Reynolds numbers

Here we describe the use of a nested high magnification camera configuration within a large field of view (FOV) PIV experiment. The objective of these measurements is to obtain instantaneous velocity flow fields to resolve the wide range of scales present in turbulent boundary layers at high Reynolds numbers of up to Re ? 20000. Flow statistics are compared against previous measurements made using hot-wire anemometry to validate and assess the quality of the PIV velocity fields. Preliminary analysis shows that the instantaneous wall shear stress can be computed from the experimental data, enabling us to directly compute quantities such as the friction velocity