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How WEIRD is HCI?: Extending HCI Principles to other Countries and Cultures

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Christian Sturm,

Alice Oh,

Sebastian Linxen,

Jose Abdelnour Nocera,

Susan Dray,

Katharina ReineckeAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 2425 - 2428

https://doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2702656

Published: 18 April 2015 Publication History

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A large majority of articles published at prominent HCI venues such as CHI and CSCW reports on studies with WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) participants, ignoring that the results might not apply to other subject populations. This workshop aims to have the following two main outcomes: (1) A list of major principles that HCI researchers often build on and that are unlikely to apply to users in other countries and cultures. (2) An action plan that describes how we can extend these previous findings, such as by collaborating across countries and cultures, conducting large-scale online experiments, or creating a culture of replications and extensions with more diverse subject populations. Furthermore, the workshop aims to establish an interest group with the goal to improve the external validity of HCI research and to inform the design of further research studies in this area.

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How WEIRD is HCI?: Extending HCI Principles to other Countries and Cultures
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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CHI EA '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 2015

2546 pages

ISBN:9781450331463

DOI:10.1145/2702613

General Chairs:
Bo Begole
Huawei, USA
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Jinwoo Kim
Yonsei University, Korea
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Kori Inkpen
Microsoft Research, USA
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Woontack Woo
KAIST, Korea

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