The process of drafting an experimental report should ideally begin prior to data collection. Writing the literature review, experimental method, discussion, and results skeleton before running participants ensures that statistical analyses are planned in advance and prevents time wasted on gathering data for an unconvincing experiment.

Experimental Report Drafting Process

An experimental write-up is an important pillar in the development of experiments because it enables the reader to follow the chain of evidence, validity, and analysis.

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1. Experimental design
2. Statistical analysis
3. Experimental write-up

Experiments have always played an important role in Human-Computer Interaction. 

Three Pillars of Good Experiments:

Experimental designs are written up in papers as objective descriptions of a state of affairs and the complex processes that led to that particular experiment are glossed over. In particular, the fact that an experimental design may have been iterated on paper, tested in a pilot or even failed entirely and iterated further may only merit the briefest of mentions, if any.


Experimental design

It is essential for an experiment to succeed. 
Statistics are needed to help identify differences outcome between testing conditions are systematic and meaningfully related to the independent variable.

Statistical analysis

Experimental Write-up

It is essential for an experiment to succeed. Statistics are needed to help identify differences outcome between testing conditions are systematic and meaningfully related to the independent variable.

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