Theories behind UX research and how they are used in practice

Marianna Obrist; Virpi Roto; Effie Lai Chong Law; Kaisa Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila; Arnold Vermeeren; Elizabeth Buie

doi:10.1145/2212776.2212712

Theories behind UX research and how they are used in practice

Marianna Obrist^*, Virpi Roto, Effie Lai Chong Law, Kaisa Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, Arnold Vermeeren, Elizabeth Buie

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Abstract

At CHI2011 we organized a SIG session asking the question "What theoretical roots do we build on, if any, in UX research?" Overall, 122 single items from about 70 participants were collected, which corroborates the relevance of and interest in this topic. Whilst the theoretical foundations for UX research are not yet established, those responses can serve as candidate resources for setting the theoretical directions. A primary conclusion from the SIG discussion is that the CHI community needs theories in UX research and practice. A major contribution of the workshop will be to clarify the applicability and transferability of different theories, theoretical foundations, concepts in informing UX design and evaluation in both research and practice. In particular we will look into theories that have already been applied in practice.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Extended Abstracts - The 30th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2012
Pages	2751-2754
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2212776.2212712
Publication status	Published - 2012
MoE publication type	B3 Non-refereed conference publication
Event	ACM SIGCHI Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Austin, United States Duration: 5 May 2012 → 10 May 2012 Conference number: 30

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Conference	ACM SIGCHI Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Abbreviated title	ACM CHI
Country/Territory	United States
City	Austin
Period	05/05/2012 → 10/05/2012

Keywords

frameworks
models
practice
theory
user experience

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Obrist, M, Roto, V, Law, ELC, Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K, Vermeeren, A & Buie, E 2012, Theories behind UX research and how they are used in practice. in Extended Abstracts - The 30th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2012. pp. 2751-2754, ACM SIGCHI Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , Austin, Texas, United States, 05/05/2012. https://doi.org/10.1145/2212776.2212712

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