TY - GEN
T1 - Evaluation beyond usability
T2 - 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018
AU - Remy, Christian
AU - Bates, Oliver
AU - Dix, Alan
AU - Thomas, Vanessa
AU - Hazas, Mike
AU - Friday, Adrian
AU - Huang, Elaine M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018/4/21
Y1 - 2018/4/21
N2 - The evaluation of research artefacts is an important step to validate research contributions. Sub-disciplines of HCI often pursue primary goals other than usability, such as Sustainable HCI (SHCI), HCI for development, or health and wellbeing. For such disciplines, established evaluation methods are not always appropriate or sufficient, and new conventions for identifying, discussing, and justifying suitable evaluation methods need to be established. In this paper, we revisit the purpose and goals of evaluation in HCI and SHCI, and elicit five key elements that can provide guidance to identifying evaluation methods for SHCI research. Our essay is meant as a starting point for discussing current and improving future evaluation practice in SHCI; we also believe it holds value for other subdisciplines in HCI that encounter similar challenges while evaluating their research.
AB - The evaluation of research artefacts is an important step to validate research contributions. Sub-disciplines of HCI often pursue primary goals other than usability, such as Sustainable HCI (SHCI), HCI for development, or health and wellbeing. For such disciplines, established evaluation methods are not always appropriate or sufficient, and new conventions for identifying, discussing, and justifying suitable evaluation methods need to be established. In this paper, we revisit the purpose and goals of evaluation in HCI and SHCI, and elicit five key elements that can provide guidance to identifying evaluation methods for SHCI research. Our essay is meant as a starting point for discussing current and improving future evaluation practice in SHCI; we also believe it holds value for other subdisciplines in HCI that encounter similar challenges while evaluating their research.
KW - Evaluation
KW - Sustainability
KW - Sustainable HCI
KW - Validation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85046968861&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3173574.3173790
DO - 10.1145/3173574.3173790
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85046968861
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 21 April 2018 through 26 April 2018
ER -