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Designing User Studies in Informatics

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  • © 2011

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Authors:
  1. Gondy Leroy

    1. , School of Information Systems and Techno, Claremont Graduate University, Mesa, USA

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  • Contains a section with practical advice on doing user studies: how to recruit participants, how much to pay, can you call it ‘payment’, NIH requirements for privacy protection, etc.
  • Principles of user study design are described at an appropriate level for CS, IS, MIS, and Med. IS people.
  • This book is not specific for a certain time period, studies will always be conducted and the principles and statistical analyses do not change.
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Health Informatics (HI)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Designing the User Study

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Overview

      • Gondy Leroy
      Pages 3-28

    3. Variables

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      Pages 29-53

    4. Design Equation and Statistics

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      Pages 55-83

    5. Between-Subjects Designs

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      Pages 85-94

    6. Within-Subject Designs

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      Pages 95-104

    7. Advanced Designs

      • Gondy Leroy
      Pages 105-110

  3. Practical Tips

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111
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    2. Understanding Main and Interaction Effects

      • Gondy Leroy
      Pages 113-123

    3. Conducting Multiple Comparisons

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      Pages 125-130

    4. Gold Standard and User Evaluations

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      Pages 131-137

    5. Recruiting and Motivating Study Participants

      • Gondy Leroy
      Pages 139-152

    6. Institutional Review Board (IRB) Approval

      • Gondy Leroy
      Pages 153-166

    7. Resources

      • Gondy Leroy
      Pages 167-177

  4. Common Mistakes to Avoid

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
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    2. Avoid Bias

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      Pages 181-188

    3. Avoid Missing the Effect

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      Pages 189-196

    4. Avoid Missing Variables or Conditions

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      Pages 197-202

    5. Other Errors to Avoid

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      Pages 203-212
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About this book

This book provides a practical, hands-on guide to conducting user studies in informatics. Its purpose is to explain the foundations of different experimental designs together with the appropriate statistical analyses for studies most often conducted in computing. Common mistakes are highlighted together with guidelines on how they should be avoided. The book is intended for advanced undergraduate students, beginning graduate students and as a refresher for any researcher evaluating the usefulness of informatics for people by doing user studies. With clear, non-technical language, fundamental concepts are explained and illustrated using diverse examples. In addition to the foundations, practical tips to starting, acquiring permission, recruiting participants, conducting and publishing studies are included. A how-to guide, in the form of a cookbook, is also included. The cookbook recipes can be followed step-by-step or adjusted as necessary for different studies. Each recipe contains step-by-step instructions and concrete advice.

Authors and Affiliations

  • , School of Information Systems and Techno, Claremont Graduate University, Mesa, USA

    Gondy Leroy

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Designing User Studies in Informatics

  • Authors: Gondy Leroy

  • Series Title: Health Informatics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-622-1

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London Limited 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-85729-621-4Published: 05 August 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-2696-6Published: 27 November 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-85729-622-1Published: 05 August 2011

  • Series ISSN: 1431-1917

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-3741

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 260

  • Topics: Health Informatics, Bioinformatics

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