CS 91.3 Lab 3: Research Problems

Due Tuesday, February 08, by midnight (23:59, EST)

Goals

The goals for this lab assignment are:

  • Learn how to develop research problems

  • Practice how to locate research problems in papers

  • Develop your research problems for mid-term

  • Develop your research problems for final

  • Write the 'Introduction' section

1. Introduction Section Structure

In most research posters and papers, the first section is usually 'Introduction', including

  • Problem statement

  • Literature review

  • Purpose of study

  • Research Questions

Ahuja_2021 is an example for poster, and Bashivan_2016 is an example for paper.

2. Read Research Examples

  • Please read the poster examples from Week 03.

    1. Poster examples AAAI 2021

    2. Poster examples AAAI 2020

    3. vBCI Best Presentation Awards

  • Please read the paper examples from NeurIPS 2021 Best Paper Awards

3. Finalize Your Research Topics

  • Your research topics should be selected from the FOUR papers you reviewed in lab 02,

    1. For example, in Lotte_2018, you may select from the following sections: 3.2. Challenges faced by current EEG signal classification methods; 5.2. Open research questions and challenges.

4. Write Your Introduction Section

  • Both team members should agree on the same research topic and work on it throughout the semester.

  • Write one 'Introduction' section for your mid-term and another 'Introduction' section for your final project.

  • Each 'Introduction' section write-up should have the following four subsections:

    1. Problem statement

    2. Literature review (At least cite five other papers in your write-up for your final project.)

    3. Purpose of study

    4. Research Questions (Use this as a reference to formulate your research questions.)

  • Each team only proposes ONE research topic for both of your mid-term and final projects.

    1. Your write-up should be less than one page for the mid-term poster.

    2. For the final paper, your write-up should be three pages.

    3. The format for these TWO 'Introduction' section write-ups should be 12 point font, Times New Roman, double spaced between all texts.

  • For the 'Title' and 'Abstract', you can create placeholders in both of your write-ups.

5. Notes

  • Each team only needs to submit one PDF file, with both names on it.

  • Email 'xqu1@swarthmore.edu' your Lab 3 write-up as lab_3_lastname1_lastname2.pdf.

  • The team members from the same team may get the same score.

  • Lab assignments will typically be released on Wednesday and will be due by midnight on the following Tuesday. This lab was released on 02/02 and will be due by midnight on 02/08.