Paper Info
Title
Touchstone: exploratory design of experiments
Abstract
Touchstone is an open-source experiment design platform designed to help establish a solid research foundation for HCI in the area of novel interaction techniques. Touchstone includes a design platform for exploring alternative designs of controlled laboratory experiments, a run platform for running subjects and a limited analysis platform for advice and access to on-line statistics packages. Designed for HCI researchers and their students, Touchstone facilitates the process of creating new experiments, as well as replicating and extending experiments in the research literature. We tested Touchstone by designing two controlled experiments. One illustrates how to create a new experiment from scratch. The other replicates and extends a previous study of multiscale pointing interaction techniques: OrthoZoom was fastest, followed by bi-manual Pan & Zoom; SDAZ and traditional Pan & Zoom were consistently slower.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1145/1240624.1240840
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
experimental design,touchstone acm classification keywords,design platform,alternative design,author keywords: benchmarking,run platform,controlled experiment,limited analysis platform,open-source experiment design platform,bi-manual pan,interaction techniques,new experiment,exploratory design,controlled laboratory experiment,hci researcher,design of experiment,interaction technique,experience design,benchmarking
Scratch,Computer science,Zoom,Human–computer interaction,Exploratory research,Benchmarking,Design of experiments
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
26
2.25
17
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wendy E. Mackay12927526.64
Caroline Appert254029.67
Michel Beaudouin-Lafon32769253.08
Olivier Chapuis471637.19
Yangzhou Du516913.85
Jean-Daniel Fekete63572175.41
Yves Guiard779060.15