RepliCHI - CHI should be replicating and validating results more: discuss

  • Authors:
  • Max L. Wilson;Wendy Mackay;Ed Chi;Michael Bernstein;Dan Russell;Harold Thimbleby

  • Affiliations:
  • Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom;INRIA and Stanford University, Paris, France;Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA;MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA;Google, Mountain View, CA, USA;Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The replication of research findings is a cornerstone of good science. Replication confirms results, strengthens research, and makes sure progress is based on solid foundations. CHI, however, rewards novelty and is focused on new results. As a community, therefore, we do not value, facilitate, or reward replication in research, and often take the significant results of a single user study on 20 users to be true. This panel will address the issues surrounding replication in our community, and discuss: a) how much of our broad diverse discipline is 'science', b) how, if at all, we currently see replication of research in our community, c) whether we should place more emphasis on replication in some form, and d) how that should look in our community. The aim of the panel is to make a proposal to future CHI organizers (2 are on the panel) for how we should facilitate replication in the future.