Spring 2019

Interaction Design Research

Project Report (Final Version)

You will must submit your final report online.

The following is the grading rubric for the final report. Follow this when writing your report.

Every item is worth 1 point.

Title

  1. Describes the contribution of the project

    2. Abstract

  2. Describes conclusion of the work
  3. Describes how conclusion was reached

    4. Introduction

  4. Covers relevant aspects of the research area
  5. Succinct and easy to follow
  6. Research question follows naturally

    7. Research Question

  7. Is a question
  8. Has implications beyond a specific task and yes/no answer

    9. Related Work

  9. 5-7 highly related academic papers are cited
  10. Describes the contributions of mentioned related work
  11. Connects proposed work to related work

    12. Hypothesis & Mechanism

  12. Has implications beyond a specific task and yes/no answer
  13. Incudes rationale that connects research question to contribution

    14. Contribution

  14. Clearly stated and is a meaningful contribution to the field of Interaction Design Research

    15. Implementation

  15. Novel algorithmic contribution (i.e. not all code was glue code) OR novel system was built out of extant tools OR well-described and executed statistical analysis of HCI-relevant collection method (e.g., survey)
  16. Original work is described in enough detail that a similar system could be prototyped by the reader

    17. Method

  17. Is a good match for the research question
  18. Experimental method is clearly described
  19. Experimental method is maximally simple

    20. Measures

  20. Correct set of measures
  21. Measures (and data clearning e.g., dropouts) clearly stated
  22. Measures decide truth of hypothesis

    23. Risk & Limitations

  23. Risks and limitations are explicitly stated
  24. Work is structured to minimize stated risks

    25. Results

  25. Results described crisply in line with hypothesis
  26. Appropriate statistical tests (e.g. CHI squared, t-test, ANOVA) are reported.

    27. Data Presentation

  27. Great use of data visualization techniques (charts, graphs) to bring out the point clearly without parsing through long text
  28. Captions summarize the primary takeaway of the figure

    29. Analysis and Discussion

  29. Detailed analysis of results
  30. Shows good understanding of the entire process by working back from results to hypothesis, teases apart data to ask more questions

    31. Future Work

  31. Set of next steps which will continue from this work
  32. Ties in well with larger research question

    33. Conclusion

  33. Affirms that claims made in introduction have been delivered and summarizes the contributions of the work

    34. Coherence & Length

  34. Paper is 3-5 pages and are in the CHI two-column format. Surveys (if used) are included in the appendix
  35. Everything fits - your paper is coherent and the individual parts conceptually well-synthesized