Particularly useful for my research would be images of your workspace—screenshots of what's on your display during a typical work session and/or a digital picture of where you work. If you're able to provide one or both of these things, please email them to me at johndanseven@gmail.com. If you need help taking a screenshot, see the instructions at the bottom of this page. (Note: If you have an account with a photo sharing Website such as Flickr or ImageBucket, you can place your images there and simply email me the URL to the images.)
In addition, I would like to conduct individual interviews with several people over email, phone, or in person. If you're willing to provide this information, please fill out the form below and click the Submit button.
Some brief tips for capturing screenshots for Windows, Macintosh OS X, and Linux are below. When you capture a shot of your screen, please capture the full screen rather than individual application windows; part of what I'm interested in is the number of applications and windows open on your display.
On Windows: In most versions of Windows, pressing the ScrnCpt key will place an image of your computer screen onto the system's clipboard. You can then open an image-editing program such as Paint or Photoshop and paste the image into a new document window (or even Microsoft Word or another program that will accept bitmapped images from the system clipboard). You can then save the document to disk and send it to me as an attachment.
On Macintosh: Simultaneously press the [Apple], [Shift], and [3] keys. (The [3] key in the top row of the keyboard, not the 4 on the numeric keypad and not [F3].) This will place a file called "Picture 1.jpg" (another extension such as ".png" might be used, depending on how your computer is configured—that's fine). You can open this file if you'd like to see what the screencapture looks like. Subsequent [Apple]+[Shift]+[3] keypresses will place additional screencaptures on your Desktop, with the number in the filename incremented by one each time. You can send one or more of the files to me as an email attachment.
On Linux: There are a lot of varieties of linux, so this may not work in every distribution, but in Unbuntu, press PrtScrn to capture an image of your full screen. You'll be prompted to save the file to disk. You can then send that .png formatted file to me as an email attachment. (Note: I've not tested this myself, so let me know if you have issues with it.)