Week 5: Study Design

This week we will focus on study design, and how to make sure that we get it right to accurately answer our questions. We will talk about:

• How to define the goals of our study, also depending on the problems we may anticipate, and the questions we would like to answer through the study,
• How to choose the appropriate evaluation method, and
• How to design study tasks that enable you to understand people and their interactions

Live Lecture Slides

• Monday, Oct. 13 [Slides]
• Wednesday, Oct. 15 [Slides pre-lecture]

Videos to Watch

• HCI Evaluation - [10min; Slides]
• HCI Study Design - [42min; Slides]
• HCI 2020 - Tasks - Understanding Your User - [10min; Slides]
• Lab Study Structure Approaches - [14min; no slides]

Optional Videos

• HCI 2020 - Lab Studies - examples - [20min; Slides]

Recommended Readings

• Universal Methods of Design (view chapters via book in library - see Resource List in LEARN):
  • 84: Task_Analysis
• How to evaluate empirically by Amy J. Ko