PhD candidate Shawn O’Banion has developed a brief survey to further his research, and asks for our help. He invites you to complete a very quick survey which involves identifying and ordering your personal interests as it relates to news content. The survey should take no longer than 5 minutes and contains two questions in which you are asked to to rank your interests in terms of high-level news categories (e.g. Sports, Politics, Technology) and specific topics (e.g. Chicago Cubs, Elections 2012, Entrepreneurship). Shawn says, "The only requirement to participate in the survey is that you have a non-protected Twitter account, which you will be asked to provide. The data will be used for my graduate research and responses will be kept anonymous."
The survey:
http://bit.ly/interestssurvey
All questions or issues can be shared with Shawn O'Banion at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Ken Forbus is serving on the Senior Advisory Board of the Symposium on Spatial Cognition for Architectural Design, to be held in November in New York City, co-sponsored by SILC and the SFB/TR8 Spatial Cognition Center (Germany).
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