Designing User Studies in Informatics
TIME AND LOCATION
Monday 18th of March - from 10-16 in room G112 Chydenia building Aalto University School of Business. (Runeberginkatu 22–24, Helsinki).
Tuesday 19th of March - from 9-13 in room A-310 The Main Building Aalto University School of Business. (Runeberginkatu 14–16, Helsinki).
SPEAKERS
Associate Professor Gondy Leroy, Claremont Graduate University
Organizer: Professor Virpi Tuunainen, Aalto University
Schedule
Monday, March 18th, 2013 - Full day (10-16)
Day Objective:
Participants work in teams.
Day Overview:
Introduction and overview of study types
Team work: Case Brainstorming
Designing Studies – Independent Variables
Team work: Application to Case
Designing Studies – Dependent Variables
Team work: application
Designing Studies – Confounded and Nuisance Variables
Team work: Application to Case
Lunch Break*
Designing Studies – Between and Within-Subjects Designs
Team Work: Application to Case
Designing Studies – Appropriate Statistics
Team Rotations: Presentation of Study & Critical Evaluation
Team Work: Adjustments and Final presentations to group
(* Lunch can be bought at own expense from Restaurants Chydenia or Rafla).
Tuesday, March 19th, 2013 - Half Day (9-13)
Day Objective:
The objective part of the second half-day of the workshop is to learn the practical aspects of conducting and completing a study, while also designing a study relevant to the participants current job or field of study.
Participants work by themselves.
Day Overview:
Designing Studies – Review of Day 1
Participant Work – Introductions to Personal Projects
Designing Studies – Bias and Other Problems to Avoid
Participant Work – Application to a Personal Project
Designing Studies – Practical Aspects: Understanding Main and Interaction Effects, Amazon Mechanical Turk, IRB, Statistics (+ other upon request)
Participant Work – Rotations of Presentation and Critique
Lunch Break - End of Workshop
Workshop Readings
Based on “Designing Users Studies in Informatics”, by Gondy Leroy, Springer 2011, ISBN: ISBN 978-0-85729-621-4.
Taken from: Part 1 Designing the User study
Chapter 2 - Variables
Chapter 4 - Between-Subjects Design
Chapter 5 - Within-Subjects Design
Electronic copies of these chapters will be provided by the presenter before the workshop.
REGISTRATIONS
CREDIT POINTS FOR PhD STUDENTS
Doctoral students participating in the seminar can obtain two (2) credit points. This requires participating on both days and completing the assignments given at the seminar.