Teaching HCI Methods: Replicating a Study of Collaborative Search.
Max L. Wilson · 2013
This paper describes the challenges experienced when replicating a user study that evaluated synergy in a collaborative search system. The original paper saw significant differences in collaborative performance, depending on the mode of collaboration. We were unable to replicate the findings, but experienced several challenges that created ambiguity and differences in the methods, which may have prevented us from doing so. These challenges and experiences, and their affect on our ability to replicate the findings, are described in detail.