APPLIED RESEARCH METHODS - 12 units This course is for Ph.D level graduate students who will carry out research in domains such as social effects of the Internet, evaluation of interactive robots and agents, and the use of sensors for predicting user behavior in information systems. Masters students will be accepted with permission of the instructor only if (a) they are planning research careers or (b) they are actively engaged in project research now (e.g., working on a project at level higher than RA). The course will be run as a lab and seminar involving hands-on practice of skills such as experimentation, web survey design, ethnographic observation, and content analysis. Students will complete a research project in the course.