UCSB Informatics: Participants

• Faculty chosen on the basis of

  • Innovative science

  • Data intensive work

  • Interdisciplinary research

  • Recommended by the Office of Research, colleagues, department heads, IT offices and librarians.

• Control Group: Non-science faculty

  • Select group of technologically innovative faculty in other disciplines were used as a control to determine whether trends were specific to sciences

• About 40 people interviewed

1. In order to get at the underlying trends