"Yours is better!": participant response bias in HCI

By Nicola Dell, Vidya Vaidyanathan, Indrani Medhi-Thies, Edward Cutrell, William Thies. International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2012

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A Systematic Review on the Practice of Evaluating Visualization (2013, background): “[7, 14], this phenomenon explains experimental artifacts that arise from the unconscious wish of participants to align with the researcher’s hypotheses.”
Critical Race Theory for HCI (2020, background): “[35] Nicola Dell, Vidya Vaidyanathan, Indrani Medhi, Edward Cutrell, and William Thies.”
“This is a Problem, Don’t You Agree?” Framing and Bias in Human Evaluation for Natural Language Generation (2020, background): “Dell et al. (2012) demonstrated participant response bias due to inter-viewer demand characteristics in evaluating human-computer interactive systems.”
Understanding User Behavior Through Log Data and Analysis (2014, background): “For example, a person may invest more time to complete a task in the lab than they might otherwise to please the investigator [Dell et al., 2012].”
End User Security and Privacy Concerns with Smart Homes (2017, background): “, avoid participant response bias [7, 19]), we began by asking more general questions that could elicit security or privacy concerns but did not explicitly mention them.”