Validity and cross-validity in HCI publications

Authors:
Harold Thimbleby
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, Swansea University, Wales
Venue:
DSVIS'06 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Interactive systems: Design, specification, and verification
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Papers in HCI play different roles, whether to inspire, solve industrial problems or further the science of HCI. There is a potential conflict between the different views, and a danger that different forms of validity are assumed by author and reader-- deliberately or accidentally. This paper reviews some of the issues in this complex area and makes practical recommendations. In particular, the paper introduces the term "cross-validity" to help make explicit the issues, problems and means to tackle them.