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cscw-experiments

Use when designing or auditing the empirical work behind a CSCW paper — interview and ethnographic rigor, trace and log analysis, surveys, deployments, and mixed methods — matching each method's own validity standard and the ethics of studying real communities.

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# CSCW Empirical Work

"Experiments" is the wrong word for most CSCW evidence, and that is the point.
The venue is deliberately methods-pluralist: interview studies, ethnography,
large-scale trace analysis, surveys, field deployments, controlled experiments, and
mixed designs all publish here — **each judged by its own tradition's standard of
rigor, not by a quantitative default.** The commonest reviewing disaster is a paper
that borrows a method without its discipline.

## Rigor, by method family

| Method | What rigor means here | What reviewers flag |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Interviews | Purposeful sampling with a rationale; saturation or a defended stopping rule; a described analysis process (coding approach, memoing, disagreement handling) | "We interviewed 12 people and themes emerged" with no analytic trail |
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