Experiments in design research: artificial and naturalistic settings for the assessment of user experience

Autores

  • Leandro Miletto Tonetto Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos
  • Valentina Marques Da Rosa Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
  • Filipe Campelo Xavier da Costa Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos
  • Fabrício Farias Tarouco Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

Palavras-chave:

User Experience, Experiments, Design Research.

Resumo

This paper discusses the development of experiments to assess user experience with innovative artefacts, based on academic and market research. It discusses ecological validity in the use of naturalistic experiments and when artificial experiments are “good enough”. Due to its potential to keep the study’s internal validity high, the artificial scenario is the first choice. When artificial settings threaten the study’s external validity, naturalistic experiments are better choices. Design research requires flexibility when planning experiments, since the usual choices made in other sciences might not be the best ones to be made.

Biografia do Autor

Leandro Miletto Tonetto, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

Docente do Programa de Pós-graduação em Design da Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

Valentina Marques Da Rosa, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Departamento de Egenharia de Produção

Filipe Campelo Xavier da Costa, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

Docente do Programa de Pós-graduação em Design da Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

Fabrício Farias Tarouco, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

Docente do Programa de Pós-graduação em Design da Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

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DOI: http://doi.org/10.26771/e-Revista.LOGO/2020.2.05

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2020-08-31

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v. 9 n. 2 (2020)

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