Is once enough?: on the extent and content of replications in human-computer interaction

Kasper Hornbæk; Søren S. Sander; Javier Andrés Bargas-Avila; Jakob Grue Simonsen

doi:10.1145/2556288.2557004

Is once enough? on the extent and content of replications in human-computer interaction

Kasper Hornbæk, Søren S. Sander, Javier Andrés Bargas-Avila, Jakob Grue Simonsen

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Abstract

A replication is an attempt to confirm an earlier study's findings. It is often claimed that research in Human- Computer Interaction (HCI) contains too few replications. To investigate this claim we examined four publication outlets (891 papers) and found 3% attempting replication of an earlier result. The replications typically confirmed earlier findings, but treated replication as a confirm/not-confirm decision, rarely analyzing effect sizes or comparing in depth to the replicated paper. When asked, most authors agreed that their studies were replications, but rarely planned them as such. Many non-replication studies could have corroborated earlier work if they had analyzed data differently or used minimal effort to collect extra data. We discuss what these results mean to HCI, including how reporting of studies could be improved and how conferences/journals may change author instructions to get more replications.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Titel	Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Antal sider	10
Forlag	Association for Computing Machinery
Publikationsdato	2014
Sider	3523-3532
ISBN (Trykt)	978-1-4503-2473-1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557004
Status	Udgivet - 2014
Begivenhed	SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2014 - Toronto, Canada Varighed: 26 apr. 2014 → 1 maj 2014

Konference

Konference	SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2014
Land/Område	Canada
By	Toronto
Periode	26/04/2014 → 01/05/2014

Emneord

replications

Adgang til dokumentet

10.1145/2556288.2557004

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Is once enough? on the extent and content of replications in human-computer interaction. / Hornbæk, Kasper; Sander, Søren S.; Bargas-Avila, Javier Andrés et al.
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. s. 3523-3532.

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Hornbæk, K, Sander, SS, Bargas-Avila, JA & Simonsen, JG 2014, Is once enough? on the extent and content of replications in human-computer interaction. i Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, s. 3523-3532, SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2014, Toronto, Canada, 26/04/2014. https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557004

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