Introduction to This Special Issue on Exploratory Sequential Data Analysis
Penelope M. Sanderson, Carolanne Fisher · Human-Computer Interaction · 1994
The goal of this special issue is to promote a better and more critical understanding of the use of observational methods in human-computer interaction (HCI). We have coined the term exploratory sequential data analysis (ESDA) to refer collectively to the many techniques that already exist in the behavioral and social sciences for handling observational data and for performing sequential analyses. Borrowing for a moment from our article in this special issue, we define ESDA as: