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:

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.

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