Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods in HCI 2020

IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay announces a 4-day course on quantitative research methods in human-computer interaction (HCI) from February 25 to 28, 2020.

The course is an exposure to quantitative methods in HCI research with a particular focus on those who are new to research.

Dates

February 25 to 28, 2020

Time

9:00 am – 5:30 pm

Venue

Vanvihar Guest House, IIT Bombay

More info

Who should attend?

This course is for you if you are:

An industry professional such as an interaction designer, user experience researcher, product manager or user interface designer with little formal exposure to quantitative HCI research.
An aspirant for a PhD programme or a current PhD student in HCI who does not have enough exposure to quantitative research methods
A faculty member in a design school who would like to teach courses on topics such as design research methods.

The course has two main goals. Firstly, it gives participants an exposure to basic theoretical concepts in conducting quantitative studies and performing statistical analysis. Secondly, it gives participants some practice with running quantitative studies. After attending the course, participants should be able to design rigorous quantitative research studies / experiments, conduct them, analyse the findings statistically and report them precisely.

Contents and Schedule

Date	Morning	Afternoon
Wednesday, Feb 26	Why do research? Literature review Sampling Confidence intervals Categorical and continuous variables	Open session - Q&A Project topic discussion
Thursday, Feb 27	Design of experiments, independent and dependant variables Null hypothesis significance testing Goodness of fit, benchmarking Comparing two variables	Open session - Q&A Planning a quantitative study Presentations
Friday, Feb 28	Correlation, regression, Anova Research strategies Developing a research question Research ethics	Conducting the study
Saturday, Feb 29	Research design Argumentation Writing a paper, reading a paper, reviewing a paper So you want to do a PhD?	Analysing the results Presentations

Fees

	Industry participants	Faculty members* and government organisations	Full time students#	International participants
Fees	₹ 16,000	₹ 12,000	₹ 6,000	₹ 48,000

* Only faculty members who are involved with teaching design, HCI or related topics in an educational institute full-time can avail these reduced fees. Visiting or part-time faculty members, those teaching in the industry, freelancers, and those working in the industry need to pay the industry fees.

# Only students who are enrolled in an educational institute for full-time studies can avail these reduced fees. Freelancers, part-time students and those working in the industry need to pay the industry fees.

Fees include lunch and refreshments on the four days of the course. The fees include the course materials, which will be distributed digitally. The fees are inclusive of 18% GST. Fees do not include accommodation. Please note that TDS need not be deducted towards payments made to IIT Bombay. A certificate to this effect is available on request.

Registration

Before you register, please have handy a scanned copy of your photo-id (e.g. Adhaar card). To register, please follow the following steps:

Please visit https://portal.iitb.ac.in/ceqipapp/home.jsp and click on the link "Login and Register" on the top right. Create an account and login.
Select CEP/GAIN courses. Search for the "HCI" or browse to February 2020 and click on the "Register" button below the "Quantitative Research Methods in HCI 2020" course name.
Fill out the course registration form. You will be asked to submit a photo id. Also, please make sure that you choose the appropriate categoy (academia, government organisation, industry, foriegn national or student).
Your registration will be approved (usually within 24 hours), after which you will get an email
Login on https://portal.iitb.ac.in/ceqipapp/home.jsp again, click on "My Courses" and click on the button called "Application Submission Details".
Pay the fees. You could either choose to use internet banking, demand draft (DD) or to pay through your company. Internet banking is the fastest (minutes), company payments are the slowest (days). If you choose DD, you will need to have the DD details ready. If you choose to use company payment, please have the name and contact details of the person in the your company who will manage the payment.
After we receive your fees, we will send you a confirmation of your registration.

The above process is demonstrated in this Youtube video. In case you face any problems, please write to anirudha{at the rate}iitb.ac.in.

Cancellation Policy
If you cancel till January 31, 2020, IIT Bombay will refund 85% of the fees paid (minus GST). If you cancel by February 15, 2020, IIT Bombay will refund 60% of the fees paid (minus GST). There will be no refunds thereafter. However, participant exchange will be allowed till February 22, 2020. For cancellations, please write to anirudha{at the rate}iitb.ac.in.

Accommodation
Shared accomodation is available in the IIT Bombay guest house for a limited number of participants on a first-come-first-served basis. If you require accommodation, please indicate so when you register. Accommodation costs are not included in the registration fee. Please do not pay the accommodation cost at the time of registration - you need to pay these at the venue.

Please do refer to the FAQs. If you need more information please contact anirudha{at the rate}iitb.ac.in.