description: This special issue's goal is to promote a better and more critical understanding of the use of observational methods in human-computer interaction. The editors have coined the term exploratory sequential data analysis (ESDA) to refer collectively to the many techniques that already exist in the behavioral and social sciences for handling observational data and for performing sequential analyses. Despite the existence of many different ESDA techniques, there is little help available to assist investigators in choosing, applying, and evaluating the results of any one of them, and there is even less help available for combining approaches and avoiding conceptual and methodological traps. Even though ESDA techniques can provide valuable and novel insights, they can be extremely time consuming and -- when done well -- conceptually complex, which makes researchers and practitioners wary of using them. Addressing some of these difficult concerns, this issue works toward an understanding of their implications in the light of diverse theological legacies that underlie ESDA, and presents examples of successful practical applications of ESDA in HCI. It provides a framework in which investigators can exercise flexibility, find appropriate and effective strategies for answering particular investigative questions, and know what kind of computational support might be available.
language: English
title: Exploratory Sequential Data Analysis: A Special Double Issue of human-computer Interaction
titlecomplete: Exploratory Sequential Data Analysis: A Special Double Issue of human-computer Interaction
publisher: CRC Press