Studying Less WEIRD people
How can we study people who are less Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic?
One of our lab's goals is to study diverse people to better capture how digital technology should be designed for the diverse users it serves. We have found that the field of Human-Computer Interaction is increasingly doing so, but it still only studies around 12% of the world's population and is heavily focused on white people. In our publications, we discuss implications for the HCI community and other researchers, such as why and when researchers should consider collecting race and ethnicity information in their studies.
Check out our LabintheWild project page to see more about how we study diverse people in our own research!
Publications
Yiqun T. Chen, Angela D. R. Smith, Katharina Reinecke, and Alexandra To "Why, when, and from whom: considerations for collecting and reporting race and ethnicity data in HCI", Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2023.
Sebastian Linxen, Christian Sturm, Florian Bruehlmann, Vincent Cassau, Klaus Opwis, and Katharina Reinecke, "How WEIRD is CHI?", Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2021. PDF
Christian Sturm, Alice Oh, Sebastian Linxen, Jose Abdelnour-Nocera, Susan Dray, and Katharina Reinecke, "How WEIRD is HCI? Extending HCI Principles to Other Countries and Cultures", Workshop at Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2015.