Measuring Instruments
Frameworks
DECIDE
Determine the goals
- What are the high-level goals? Who wants it and why? The goals influence the approach of the study
Explore the questions
- Define the goals and reseach questions
Choose evaluation approach and methods
- Influences the data collection, analysis and presentation
- Exploratory research => qualitative data, observational study,
Identify practical issues
- Users, budget, schedule, equipment etc.
- Pilot study important
Decide about ethical issues
- Adhere to ethical procedure
- User rights! Explain the goals (before/after), methodology etc.
Evaluate, analyze, interpret, present data
- Reliable results: Can the results be replicated?
- Validity: Is the data related to the hypothesis?
- Bias: Are the results unbiased?
- Scope: Can this be generalised?
- Ecological validity: Is the environment influencing the results?
IMPACT
Intention: Present the objectives and claims
Measures and metrics: "What, how and why"
People: Define the participants
Activities: Use cases into activities
Context: Social, ethical, physical, etc. environment definition
Technologies: Hardware and software