This is the canonical front door for the dissertation. Public GitHub Pages overview for Micah Miner's current Chapters 1-3 proposal and its completed qualifying-paper foundation.
Live site:
https://minerclass.github.io/dissertation-overview/
Micah passed the Chapters 1-3 dissertation proposal defense on August 13, 2026. NLU IRB approved the study as Exempt on October 7, 2026 (protocol ER01884), through October 7, 2027. Interview and survey-review invitations are open. The anonymous survey is not open until the approved form is live. No findings are reported.
Decided July 30, 2026. Every other public artifact in the ecosystem — dashboards, studios, companions, instruments, games, and conference translations — is a companion to this page, and should link back to it.
Two things follow for anyone editing the ecosystem:
- No other artifact should claim to be the entry point, the source of truth, or the page that "controls" when wording differs. If you find such a claim, correct it and point it here.
- This page is not the controlling source for scholarly content. The controlling source is the submitted Chapters 1-3. This page is the canonical entry point; the proposal is the canonical text. Keep the header's "last aligned with the proposal" date current when you revise.
Known companions that already route here: the immersive companion (pedagogical-friction), the
Friction Atlas (friction-atlas), and the root hub (minerclass.github.io).
micahminer.com/dissertation-research/ is outside GitHub. Its wording is tracked in
MANUAL_SITE_UPDATES.md in the doctoral research workspace.
This repository contains public-facing overview material only. Do not store participant data, interview materials, private research notes, or IRB-protected content here.
This repository is dual-licensed to separate code from scholarship:
- Code (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, config): MIT License.
- Written and scholarly content (framework descriptions, prose, figures): CC BY 4.0, reuse and adapt with attribution to Micah J. Miner.
The Pedagogical Friction framework and its terminology are the author's scholarly work; please cite the dissertation and related publications when building on them.