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Papers in HCI play different roles, whether to inspire, solve industrial problems or further the science of HCI. There is a potential conflict between the different views, and a danger that different forms of validity are assumed by author and reader — deliberately or accidentally.
This paper reviews some of the issues in this complex area and makes practical recommendations. In particular, the paper introduces the term “cross-validity” to help make explicit the issues, problems and means to tackle them.
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Thimbleby, H. (2007). Validity and Cross-Validity in HCI Publications. In: Doherty, G., Blandford, A. (eds) Interactive Systems. Design, Specification, and Verification. DSV-IS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4323. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69554-7_2
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