Searching for a study to replicate (2018-12-18)

Tagged as: blog, replication, research
Group: H Further research to find a replicable study. The main focus lies on the practicability, the user groups, the study design and the needed equipment.

We found some new interesting studies through our research on replicatable studies.

"Touch Screen User Interfaces for Older Adults: Button Size and Spacing"

By Zhao Xia, Jin Tom, Plocher Liana Kiff, 2007 The main problem with this study is the accessibility to the study in which the study design and questionnaires are available. We could not find a full version although the title was promising.

"Optimal touch button size for the use of mobile devices while walking"

By Jessica Conradi*,Olivia Busch, Thomas Alexander, 2015 The paper is mainly about hitting buttons correctly while moving. The Problem here is the used equipment for the study. Participants were asked to do the tasks while they where on a cosmos pulsar treadmill, walking at a speed of 5 kmh and were lead through a virtual reality.

"Effects of Using Visual Design Principles to Group Response Options in Web Surveys"

By Jolene D. Smyth, Don A. Dillman, Leah M. Christian, Michael J. Stern 2006 This is about how the style of online survey question influence the answers. The different styles they used are demonstrated pretty well, but the full surveys they used for the study aren't available.

"Evaluating the Effects of Feedback Type on Older Adults’ Performance in Mid-Air Pointing and Target Selection"

By Arthur Theil Cabreira and Faustina Hwang 2018 The Paper and what the did is very well described, but they used very special equipment.

"Running an HCI Experiment in Multiple Parallel Universes"

By Pierre Dragicevi, Fanny Chevalier 2014 The study evaluates an haptic touch slider in 8 parallel universes. This is a pretty well and good documented study.

"The effects of usability and web design attributes on user preference for e-commerce web sites"

By Sangwon Lee, Richard J. Koubek 2010 These study examines the relationships among perceived usability before actual use, task completion time, and preference, and the effects of design attributes on user preference for e-commerce web sites. They tested 8 different websites of online bookstores. Unfortunately, the questionnaires are not published.

"Sliders for the Smart: Type of Rating Scale on the Web Interacts With Educational Level"

Frederik Funke, Ulf-Dietrich Reips, and Randall K. Thomas