Transparent Research Discussions That (Would Have) Happened at CHI 2020 2020-07-28

Although CHI wound up not occuring this year, the work was still published and some of the panels occured virtually. Here are some highlights on transparent research: Transparency of CHI Research Artifacts: Results of a Self-Reported Survey Chatchavan Wacharamanotham, Lukas Eisenring, Steve Haroz, Florian Echtler PDF DOI: 10.1145/3313831.3376448 🏆 Best paper award Panel Transparency in Qualitative Research: Increasing Fairness in the CHI Review Process Poorna Talkad Sukumar, Ignacio Avellino, Christian Remy, Mike DeVito, Tawanna Dillahunt, Joanna McGrenere, Max Wilson Website Preview Video Full Video Read more…

Updates to the CHI Submission and Reviewing Guides Promote Open Research Practices 2019-08-01

Over the past year, members of Transparent Statistics in HCI have worked with people across various disciplines of the HCI community and chairs of the conference (full contributor list below) to update the CHI guides for a successful submission and for reviewing. These new instructions aim to increase the transparency and openness of several facets of research, including: decisions performed materials created or used data collected Making these facets of research accessible can enable reviewers and readers to better assess HCI research, facilitate industry to build upon and apply HCI research, and help HCI researchers to more efficiently use past research to make new advances. Read more…

Can we call mean differences "effect sizes"? 2018-07-05

The current draft of the transparent statistics guidelines has an FAQ and exemplar on effect sizes. During a meeting we ran at CHI to collect feedback, a participant strongly objected to our use of the term “effect size” in the guidelines. This prompted me to investigate further to make sure we haven’t missed anything in deciding the terminology. Here is what I found. We should report effect sizes. But what are effect sizes? Read more…

Launch of the transparent statistics in HCI blog 2018-07-03

This post marks the transition of the Transparent Statistics in HCI website to blogdown. This is an exciting transition for several reasons: The website is no longer backed by some hacked-together scripts I made. The website can be contributed to by others via Github. (Most excitingly), we will be able to begin blogging about transparent statistics in HCI! To that last point, we will be soliciting posts from members of the community on topics related to transparent statistical communication in human-computer interaction. Read more…