Week 5: Study Design
Hello and welcome to week 5! We are halfway through the semester.
After catching a glimpse of evaluation and looking at heuristics last week, this week we will look at designing evaluation studies. We usually spend quite a while designing a study to make sure that it accurately addresses our key points, is fair to our participants and is optimised to yield the results we are looking for.
The first steps are the same for any kind of study. We need to define our goals. And to do that, we need to think about the problem we defined earlier and our users.
In the first video, you will hear more about how to choose the right evaluation method and how important it is for your study design to create the right tasks for your participants. In the second video, you will hear more about tasks and see examples of how to use them to understand the user better.
While optional, we highly recommend watching the other two videos where Aurora and James describe examples of studies. Examples are often how we get inspired and learn how to use a certain technique. James' video on participatory design is currently unavailable, however, we are working on getting it back up for you.
While we have just over an hour of videos, this is crucial for HCI, regardless of if you will go into research or industry. It is also important for your coursework.
This Week's Videos
You can find the weekly playlists on the HCI media hub channel. Please click here to view week 5's videos or use the player below.
Required:
Optional:
- HCI 2020 - Lab Studies – examples - slides
- Lab Structure Approaches - no slides
- Participatory Design by James Stewart - no slides available (Video not available at the moment, but we are looking into making it available again)
Weekly Quiz
The weekly quiz will be posted on Monday on Learn.
Recommended Reading
- Universal Methods of Design (view chapters via book in library - see Resource List in LEARN):
- 84: Task_Analysis
- How to be critical by Amy J. Ko
- How to evaluate empirically by Amy J. Ko