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<p class="MsoNormal">I was asked to pass along the below email to all our upper year CS students and grad CS students for a research study. Please try to participate in this survey if you are able. (added bonus: you could win a gift card).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:6.0pt;color:#7030A0">Laura K. Reid</span></b><span style="font-size:6.0pt"><br>
<b><span style="color:#7030A0">Faculty – Computer Science Department</span></b><br>
<b><span style="color:#7030A0">Western University, London, Ontario, Canada</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xxmsonormal"><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Hello, </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal"><span class="xcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal"><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">You are being invited to participate in a study that we, Shaimaa Ali, Leon Nasehi and Matthew Temniuk, are conducting. Briefly, the
study involves asking you to identify any concepts that you learned (or tried to learn) during your undergraduate studies of Software Engineering or Computer Science that would match one of the criteria of a threshold concept.</span></span><span class="xcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> </span></span><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">The
five criteria are named as follows, transformative, troublesome, irreversible, integrative and bounded. You’ll find a brief description of each criterion as part of the corresponding question in the questionnaire. </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal"><span class="xcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal"><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">You’ll be asked to fill in an online questionnaire that has five questions, each of which is anticipated to take 5 – 10 minutes.
You’ll be entered into a draw to win one of five 50-dollar Amazon gift cards. We are offering one gift card per question, so if you answer all the questions, you’ll have five chances to be selected in the draw. </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal"><span class="xcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal"><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Students of Software Engineering or Computer Science are the only group that will be included, and irrelevant answers will be excluded. </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal"><span class="xcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal"><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">You’ll have a chance to win a 50 dollars Amazon gift card for each of the questions (i.e. there are five gift cards in total) </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal"><span class="xcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal"><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">The questionnaire will be open until January 31<sup>st</sup>, 2023. A reminder will be sent to you one day before the closing date. </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal"><span class="xcontentpasted0"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> </span></i></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal"><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">If you would like to participate in this study, click on the link below to access the letter of information and the questionnaire. </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;background:white"><a href="https://uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0pwjjNYIwW8jWzI" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">https://uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0pwjjNYIwW8jWzI</span></a></span><span class="xcontentpasted0"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> </span></span><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal"><span class="xcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal"><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Thank you, </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xxmsonormal"><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Principal Investigator </span></b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal"><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Dr. Shaimaa Ali, Ph.D., P.Eng. </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal"><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Assistant Professor, ECE Department </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal"><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Western University </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal"><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Office: TEB 215 </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal"><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Phone: 5196612111 ex. 81268 </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal"><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Email:</span></span><span class="xcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;background:white"><a href="mailto:sali242@uwo.ca" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">sali242@uwo.ca</span></a></span><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> </span></span><span class="xcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> </span></span><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> </span></span><span class="xcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal"><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Researchers </span></b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Leon Nasehi</span></span><span class="xcontentpasted0"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;background:white"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;background:white"><a href="mailto:lnasehi@uwo.ca" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">lnasehi@uwo.ca</span></a></span><span class="xcontentpasted0"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"> </span></span><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">(Integrative
Concepts)</span></span><span class="xcontentpasted0"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;background:white"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Matthew Temniuk</span></span><span class="xcontentpasted0"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;background:white"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;background:white"><a href="mailto:mtemniuk@uwo.ca" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">mtemniuk@uwo.ca</span></a></span><span class="xcontentpasted0"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"> </span></span><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">(Troublesome
Concepts)</span></span><span class="xcontentpasted0"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;background:white"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#7232AD">Best of Regards,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#7232AD">---------------------</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#7232AD">Shaimaa Ali, PhD (TEB 251 ex. 81268)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#7232AD">Assistant Professor </span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#7232AD">AISE Program </span><span style="color:#7232AD">Director</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#7232AD">Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#7232AD">University of Western Ontario</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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