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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">HI everyone<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Just a reminder that your participation as Computer Science students, in the research study below, would be greatly appreciated. See information below.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Laura<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Shaimaa Ali
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<b>Sent:</b> January 27, 2023 12:10 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Laura K. Reid <lreid2@uwo.ca><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Reminder: Invitation to participate in research (Mass Email) <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Hello, </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">This is a reminder of the invitation that was sent to you on January 9<sup>th</sup>, 2023, regarding the participation
in the study that we, Shaimaa Ali, Leon Nasehi and Matthew Temniuk, are conducting. </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">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. 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"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">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"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">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"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">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"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The questionnaire will be ending this Tuesday, January 31<sup>st</sup>, 2023. </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">If you would like to participate in this study, please click on the link below to access the letter of information
ad the survey. </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><a href="https://uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0pwjjNYIwW8jWzI"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;background:white">https://uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0pwjjNYIwW8jWzI</span></a></span><span class="contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#32363A;background:white">
</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Thank you, </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="contentpasted0"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Principal Investigator </span></b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dr. Shaimaa Ali, Ph.D., P.Eng. </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Assistant Professor, ECE Department </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Western University </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Office: TEB 215 </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Phone: 5196612111 ex. 81268 </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="contentpasted0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Email:
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:sali242@uwo.ca">sali242@uwo.ca</a><span class="contentpasted0">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="contentpasted0"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Researchers </span></b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="contentpasted0"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Leon Nasehi</span></span><span class="contentpasted0"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">
</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:lnasehi@uwo.ca">lnasehi@uwo.ca</a><span class="contentpasted0"> (Integrative Concepts)</span></span><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><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;background:white">
<span class="contentpasted0"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Matthew Temniuk</span></span><span class="contentpasted0"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#424242;background:white">
</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:mtemniuk@uwo.ca">mtemniuk@uwo.ca</a><span class="contentpasted0"> (Troublesome Concepts)</span></span><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><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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