There was a really interesting discussion about Nicki's work on the ICT4CHW mailing list at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ict4chw/9QBIJ_Mnq2k.
Also relevant is this story from Mobile Active. http://mobileactive.org/does-anyone-really-my-stuff-bias-evaluation On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 13:50, Nicola Dell <nixdell at cs.washington.edu> wrote: > This Thursday at Change Nicki Dell will be talking about participant > response bias in ICTD and HCI. > > Although HCI researchers and practitioners frequently work with groups of > people that differ significantly from themselves, little attention has been > paid to the effects these differences have on the evaluation of > technological systems. Via 450 interviews in Bangalore, India, we measure > participant response bias due to interviewer demand characteristics and the > role of social and demographic factors in influencing that bias. We find > that respondents are about 2.5x more likely to prefer a technological > artifact they believe to be developed by the interviewer, even when the > alternative is identical. When the interviewer is a foreign researcher > requiring a translator, the bias towards the interviewer's artifact > increases to 5x. In fact, the interviewer's artifact is preferred even when > it is degraded to be obviously inferior to the alternative. We conclude that > participant response bias should receive more attention within the CHI > community, especially when designing for underprivileged populations. > > Nicki Dell is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science and > Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is advised by > Professor Gaetano Borriello and Professor Linda Shapiro and her research > interests are in computer vision and human-computer interaction, with a > focus on designing and evaluating applications that improve the lives of > underserved populations in low-income regions. This talk will present > research that was done during a summer internship with the Technology for > Emerging Markets Lab at Microsoft Research in Bangalore India. Nicki also > runs the Change Seminar, a group at the University of Washington exploring > how technology can improve the lives of underserved populations in > low-income regions and is actively involved in DUB, a multidisciplinary > group at UW that leads research in Human Computer Interaction and Design. > > What: Nicki Dell on Participant Response Bias. > > Where: The Allen Center, CSE 203. > > When: Thursday, February 16 at 12 noon. > > > _______________________________________________ > change mailing list > change at change.washington.edu > http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change >
