Speaker: Chat Wacharamanotham
Title: A brief tour of research transparency for quantitative research
When/where: Thursday June 19th, 2025 – 11h00 – Room AGATHE
Abstract: Have you heard of power pose, grit, or nudges? Findings like these have been widely popularized in the past decade. However, when later scientists tried to replicate the study with the same procedures, their results showed that the effect was either absent or much smaller than in the original experiments. This “Replication Crisis” occurred in psychology, medicine, economics, and political science and shook the public trust in science. A potential solution is to increase transparency in the research process. Although research transparency is widely adopted in quantitative research, the fields with diverse research methodologies, such as Human–Computer Interaction (HCI), are reluctant. In this talk, Chat will introduce research transparency, best practices, and tools to support it. The target audiences of this talk are students and early-career researchers with a basic understanding of quantitative methods.
Bio: Dr. Chat Wacharamanotham is a lecturer at the University of Zurich. His work is in the field of Human–Computer Interaction (HCI). Specifically, he is interested in understanding and developing tools for planning, reporting, reading, and sharing quantitative research. Previously, Chat was a lecturer at Swansea University and an assistant professor at the University of Zurich. His works received three Best Paper Awards (top 1%) at CHI conferences—an ACM premier conference in the field of HCI. He was an associate chair for several conferences and journals in HCI and Information Visualization. He co-organizes the Transparent Statistics in HCI group and co-founded the Journal of Visualization and Interaction (JoVI); a diamond open-access journal for the fields of Visualization and HCI. Chat also co-founded the Bangkok ACM SIGCHI Chapter, and he was a chair of the Asia SIGCHI Committee—an arm of the SIGCHI Executive Committee to promote HCI in Asia. Chat is a board member of the Swiss SIGCHI Chapter.