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Does Anyone Really Like My Stuff? Testing the Effects of Participant Bias in Evaluation

Posted by AnneryanHeatwole on Jan 23, 2012

Many mobile and tech for development projects elicit enthusiastic responses by the target constituency when they are asked, but then go on to not be used. "Yours is Better!" Participant Bias in HCI investigates the influence of researchers and developers on how beneficiaries react to new services and products, specifically the social and behavioral reasons why users may claim to like a project or find it useful. In an effort to understand the relationship between interviewers and interviewees, two researchers ran an experiment to test the effects of participant bias. Covering interviewers with 450 residents of Bangalore, India, the experiment tested three hypotheses:

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