My Interviewees as Professional Writers

This project is only in pre-production and I've worked on it for about one day now and already I have done so much research and in-depth analysis it's crazy. I definitely feel like an official stalker now after researching my two interviewees. I hope they never see these blogs.

Asthana, Alka. "Side Effects of Facebook." 6/22/15 via endlessorigami.blogspot.com. Licensed for noncommercial reuse.

• Verica Buchanan: she has helped author numerous different professional publications and studies that she's been a part of according to her publication site. Most of her publications that she's been a part of is a crossroads of engineering and psychology, which is a very interesting combination in my opinion. A lot of her publications have to do with the test of human intelligence on various cognitive science issues and all are in a case study format.

• Dr. David Sbarra: he has helped author countless professional publications that can be found on his website. Most of his publications have to do with how human health is affected by the different social relationships a person has (i.e. parent/infant relationship, marriage relationships, etc.).

• Verica Buchanan: One of her publications, Human Factors Guidelines, is a scientific article aimed at highlighting the difficulties of intelligence analysis and outline guidelines to study and design collaborative intelligence analysis tech and tools. Another one of her scientific articles that she worked on, The Cognitive Science of Intelligence Analysis, she highlights cognitive challenges that make intelligence analysis hard. In response, she offers the Living Lab approach as a solution to understanding the cognitive science of intelligence.

• Dr. David Sbarra: One of his publications entitled Absent but not Gone, is a long-term case study that studied 325 couples before and after a spouse's death in order to reveal if a spouse's characteristics transferred to the other spouse after death and how it affected their quality of life. Another article he helped work on, Social Baseline Theory, which explained the theory that social relationships are used by the brain and that a lack of social relationships can actually lead to an increase in cognitive and physiological effort.

• The only professional genre I could find were case studies and articles that each interviewee was a part of. The only difference between a scientific article and a case study is that a case study has a section on methods and a summary of the experiment that took place with a discussion of the results that opens it up to other professionals in the field.

• Context:

• For both of Verica Buchanan's articles, the context involves the challenges and issues that intelligence analysts have been running into on a daily basis that mostly have to do with cognition.

•  For both of Dr. Sbarra's publications, the context involves how our social relationships can affect our life and why having close social relationships is extremely beneficial in staying healthy both with cognition and physiologically.

• Message:

• For both of Verica Buchanan's articles, the message is that the Living Lab approach is a valuable tool to use in order to understand the cognitive science behind intelligence analysis. Also, to study and design collaborative intelligence analysis tech and tools.

• For both of Dr. Sbarra's publications, the message is that a lack of social relationships can lead to an increase in physiological and cognitive effort. Also, that an intimate relationship with someone can affect your quality of life even when the other person is gone.

• Purpose:

• For both of Verica's Buchanan's articles, the purpose is to inform and persuade with scientific articles.

• For both of Dr. Sbarra's publications, the case study's purpose is to educate and inform of the study's results. While the purpose of the scientific article is again to inform and persuade.