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Pub. period:2006-2009
Pub. count:6
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Martin Schmettow

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Current place of employment:
Passau University

Studied psychology and business computing. Worked as a scientist and consultant at a German Software Engineering research institute. Current research is on advanced statistical approaches for measuring, planning and controlling usability evaluation studies.

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2009
 
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Schmettow, Martin (2009): Controlling the usability evaluation process under varying defect visibility. In: Proceedings of the HCI09 Conference on People and Computers XXIII 2009. pp. 188-197.

“In cases where usability is a mission critical system quality it is becoming essential to know whether an evaluation study has identified the majority of existing defects. Previous work has shown that procedures for estimating the progress of evaluation studies have to account for variation in defect visibility; otherwise, harmful bias will happen. Here, a statistical model is introduced for estimating the number of not-yet-identified defects in a study. This approach also supports exact confidence intervals and can easily be adapted to estimate the required number of sessions. The method is evaluated and shown to, in most cases, provide accurate measures. A running example illustrates how practitioners may track the progress of their studies and make quantitatively informed decisions on when to finish.”

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2008
 
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Schmettow, Martin and Vietze, Wolfgang (2008): Introducing item response theory for measuring usability inspection processes. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008. pp. 893-902.

“Usability evaluation methods have a long history of research. Latest contributions significantly raised the validity of method evaluation studies. But there is still a measurement model lacking that incorporates the relevant factors for inspection performance and accounts for the probabilistic nature of the process. This paper transfers a modern probabilistic approach from psychometric research, known as the Item Response Theory, to the domain of measuring usability evaluation processes. The basic concepts, assumptions and several advanced procedures are introduced and related to the domain of usability inspection. The practical use of the approach is exemplified in three scenarios from research and practice. These are also made available as simulation programs.”

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Schmettow, Martin (2008): Heterogeneity in the Usability Evaluation Process. In: England, David and Beale, Russell (eds.) HCI2008 September 1-5, 2008, Liverpool, UK. pp. 89-98.

“Current prediction models for usability evaluations are based on stochastic distributions derived from series of Bernoulli processes. The underlying assumption of these models is a homogeneous detection probability despite of it being intuitively unrealistic. This paper contributes a simple statistical test for existence of heterogeneity in the process. The compound beta-binomial model is proposed to incorporate sources of heterogeneity and compared to the binomial model. Analysis of several data sets from the literature illustrates the methods and reveals that heterogeneity occurs in most situations. Finally, it is demonstrated how heterogeneity biases the prediction of evaluation processes. Open research questions are discussed and preliminary advice for practitioners for controlling their processes is given.”

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Schmettow, Martin (2008): Towards Industrial Strength Usability Evaluation. In: Abrahao, Sylvia, Law, Effie Lai-Chong, Stage, Jan and Hornbæk, Kaspar (eds.) International Workshop on the Interplay between Usability Evaluation and Software Development I-USED 2008 2008, Pisa, Italy. .

 
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Schmettow, Martin (2008): Heterogeneity in the Usability Evaluation Process. In: Proceedings of the HCI08 Conference on People and Computers XXII 2008. pp. 89-98.

“Current prediction models for usability evaluations are based on stochastic distributions derived from series of Bernoulli processes. The underlying assumption of these models is a homogeneous detection probability despite of it being intuitively unrealistic. This paper contributes a simple statistical test for existence of heterogeneity in the process. The compound beta-binomial model is proposed to incorporate sources of heterogeneity and compared to the binomial model. Analysis of several data sets from the literature illustrates the methods and reveals that heterogeneity occurs in most situations. Finally, it is demonstrated how heterogeneity biases the prediction of evaluation processes. Open research questions are discussed and preliminary advice for practitioners for controlling their processes is given.”

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2006
 
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Schmettow, Martin (2006): User Interaction Design Patterns for Information Retrieval Systems. In: Hvatum, Lise and Zdun, Uwe (eds.) EuroPloP 2006 2006, Irsee, Germany. .

 
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Publication statistics

Pub. period:2006-2009
Pub. count:6
Number of co-authors:1



Co-authors

Number of publications with 3 favourite co-authors:

Wolfgang Vietze:1

 

 

Productive colleagues

Martin Schmettow's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:

Wolfgang Vietze:1
 
 
 
May 23

“ Knowledge is commonly socially constructed, through collaborative efforts towards shared objectives or by dialogues and challenges brought about by different persons' perspectives. ”

-- G. Salomon (in "Distributed Cognitions: Psychological and Educational Considerations")

 
 

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