Structure for Experiment Report
Title, autorship
Structured abstract - Summarizes the paper under headdings of backgroundd or context, objectives or aims, method,
results, and clonclusions
Motivation - Sets the scope of the work and encourages readers to read the rest of the paper
Problem Statement - Reports what the problem is; where it occurs, and who observes it
Research Objectives - Defines the experiment using the formalized style used in GQM
Context - Repors environmental factors such as settings and locations
Related Work - How current study relates to other research
Experimental Design - Describes the outcome of the experimental planning stage
Goals, hypotheses and variables - Presents the refinedd research objectives
Design - Define the type of experimental design
HCI Evaluation - Define the usability
Subjects - Defines the mtheods used for subject samplingand group allocation
Objects - Defines waht experimental objects were used
Instrumentation - Defines any guidelines and measurement instruments usedd
Data Collection procedure - Defines the experimental schedule, timing and data collection procedure
Analysis Procedure - Specifies the mathematical analysis model to be used
Evaluation of validity - Describes the validity of materials, procedures to ensure participants keep to the
validity of data collection methods and tools
Execution - Describes how the experimental plan was implemented
Sample - Description of the sample characteristics
Preparation How the experimental groups wre formed and trained
Data collection performed - How data collection took place and any deviations from plan
Validity procedure - How the validity process was followed and any deviation from plan
Analysis - Summarizes the collectedd data andd describes how it was analyzed
Descriptive statistics - Presentation of the data using descriptive statistics
Data set reduction - Describes any reduction of the data set e.g removal of outliers
Hypothesis testing - Describes how the data was evaluated and how the analysis modedl was validated
Interpretation - Interprets the findings from the Analysis section
Evaluation of results and implications - Explain the results
Limitations of study - Discusses threats to validity
Inferences - How the results generalize given the findddings and limitations
Lesson learnt - Descriptions of what went well and what did not during the course of the experiment
Conclusions and future work - Presents a summary of the study
Relation to existing evidence - Describes the contribution of the study in the context of earlier experiments
Impact - Identifies the most important findings
Limitations - Identifies main limitations of approach i.e, ciscumstancies when the expected benefits will not be
delivered
Future work - Suggestions for other experiments to further investigate
Acknowledgements - Identifies any contributors who do not fulfill authorship criteria
References - Lists all cited literature
Appendices - Includes raw data and/or detailed analyses which might help others to use the results
Structure for Case Study
Title
Autorship
Structure abstract
Introduction
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Problem statement
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Research objectives
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Context
Related work
Case Study Design
Results
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Case and subjects descriptions, covering execution, analysis andd interpretation issues
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Subsections, which may be structured e.g. according to coding scheme, each linking observartions to
conclusions
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Evaluation of validity
Conclusions andd future work
Ackowledgements
References
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