Running an HCI Experiment in Multiple Parallel Universes

Pierre Dragicevic (1) , Fanny Chevalier (2) , Stéphane Huot (3, 4)

1 AVIZ - Analysis and Visualization
2 MINT2 - Méthodes et outils pour l'Interaction à gestes
3 IN-SITU - Situated interaction
4 LRI - Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique

We experimentally evaluated a haptic touch slider in 8 parallel universes. The results were overall similar but exhibited surprisingly high variability in terms of statistical significance patterns. We discuss the general implications of these findings for empirical HCI research.

Mots clés: Evaluation; Replication; Multiverse; NHST; p-value

Domaines: Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]; Bibliothèque électronique [cs.DL]

Pierre Dragicevic, Fanny Chevalier, Stéphane Huot. Running an HCI Experiment in Multiple Parallel Universes. 2014, pp.607-618. ⟨10.1145/2559206.2578881⟩. ⟨hal-00976507⟩