Experimental Design for HCI Research

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SYNOPSIS

The “Experimental Design for HCI research” tutorial will introduce the basic concepts and pitfalls of running experiments with human participants. It is particularly intended for researchers from a computer science background who are planning to conduct formal experiments, especially PhD students. The tutorial will follow the process from ‘wanting to evaluate HCI research’ to an experimental design, and from there to publishable results. It will:

1. introduce basic concepts of formal empirical design
2. illustrate these concepts with a broad range of examples
3. address the many different design decisions that need to be made in formulating a valid experiment;
4. briefly introduce appropriate statistical analysis methods.

The examples presented will primarily be from the area of Information Visualisation (as this is the instructor’s area of expertise), although other HCI examples will also be mentioned. Broader discussion of other experimental examples may also take place, depending on the experimental experience of the tutorial participants.

CONTACT

Helen Purchase
hcp@dcs.gla.ac.uk