Hello Processing Community,

We're running an exploratory study of Processing developers, conducted over Skype Screen Sharing. (You can participate from anywhere!)

I'm a researcher in the Stanford Human-Computer Interaction Group. Our long-term goal is to help build even better tools for the community.

== What will the study be like? ==

The study will take place over Skype (using Screen Sharing), and will last 60 minutes. We'll give you an interesting data set (e.g. airline flight logs from the last week) and ask you to spend 60 minutes using Processing to build an interesting visualization of the data.

Any English-speaking person who uses Processing can participate.

There's no right or wrong answer. We want to see how you explore the data with code, what works well, and identify places where tools could support your practices better. We'll be interested in hearing what you like and don't like about Processing, and why you work the way you do.

== Compensation ==

We know your time is valuable. For the 60-minute study, we will compensate you with a $50 Amazon.com gift certificate. And, you might have some fun!

== How to Apply ==

If you'd like to participate in the study, please send me (Joel Brandt, username: jbrandt) a private message with the following information:

 1. Your name and e-mail address, and general location (time zone) -- We're in the Pacific time zone
 2. The code from one of your favorite Processing sketches that you've written (we won't share or publish this code)
 3. Preferences for time of day/week that you'd like to participate (e.g. after 6pm on weekdays) -- we'll work out an exact time if you're selected  

== More about our Research ==

This research is part of the Opportunistic Programming project, which you can read about here:
 http://hci.stanford.edu/opportunistic

To find out more about what the HCI group at Stanford is up to as a whole, visit:
 http://hci.stanford.edu/research

Thanks!
 -- Joel Brandt
    Ph.D. Candidate
    Stanford HCI Group