Analyzing the interaction between facilitator and participants in two variants of the think-aloud method.

Haak van den, Maaike J. and Jong de, Menno D.T. (2005) Analyzing the interaction between facilitator and participants in two variants of the think-aloud method. In: International Professional Communication Conference, IPCC 2005, 10-13 July 2005, Limerick, Ierland.

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Abstract:	This paper focuses on the interaction between test participants and test facilitator in two variants of the think-aloud method. In a first, explorative study, we analyzed think-aloud transcripts from two usability tests: a concurrent think-aloud test and a constructive interaction test. The results of our analysis show that while the participants in both studies never explicitly addressed the facilitator, the think-aloud participants showed more signs of awareness of the facilitator than the participants in the constructive interaction test. This finding may have practical implications for the validity of the two methods.
Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item
Copyright:	©2005 IEEE
Faculty:	Behavioural Sciences (BS)
Research Group:	Technical and Professional Communication (TPC)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/55179
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2005.1494192
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