Research Assignment #3 (Study Idea Proposal)

The purpose of this assignment is to have you continue to think critically and creatively about how to study the uEMA method in an experiment at Northeastern that might be conducted during the class.

Based on all the readings and class discussion to date, make a proposal for an experiment that the class could conduct at Northeastern to test some aspect of the uEMA method. In no more than 2 pages of text (11 point font, single spaced) and as many pages of screenshots and references as you need, include the following information:

• Your name, email, department, and year in school.
• A statement of the fundamental problem, justified in a scientific writing style.
• Your scientific hypothesis, stated clearly and precisely. A hypothesis should be a statement that can be tested.
• Justification of why testing the scientific hypothesis is important to do (connecting your argument to the readings and papers in Mendeley, as best as you can), using a scientific writing style.
• Describe how the class might actually run an experiment to test the scientific hypothesis (assuming the current technology can be modified appropriately). Please be realistic about what can be built. Be detailed in how the experiment and technology would work. (For the technology, you can use additional pages to show images of what the screens would look like, if you need them).
• List and describe the measures you would obtain from running the experiment and how they would be used to test the scientific hypothesis.
• List the requirements, risks, and barriers to running the study, and how the class might avoid or overcome the risks and barriers.

Wherever possible you should be citing articles, both from the reading list and others. You can have as many reference pages as you need. You can use the IEEE reference format to save some space on the first two pages if you want to. Please make sure the references are formated properly and that all references cited are in Mendeley and the Dropbox.

You can also have as many pages of watch templates as you need to convey how the technology would work.

Bring one copy of your write up for every person in the class to the class and Stephen, and send an email of the PDF to ...@neu.edu. Name the file in this format: [your last name].research3.pdf.