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This website holds information about the workshop Challenges in the Evaluation of Usability and User Experience of Reality Based Interaction, held on Sunday, 5th of April 2009 at CHI 2009 in Boston, MA.

The emergence of Post-WIMP interfaces led to new ways of interacting with technology. However, there are still no integrated ways of evaluating the usability and user experience of these interfaces. Developers and designers are left to discover their own evaluation methods. This approach presents problems, as methods used in each case may provide results that are neither valid nor meaningful. Thus, the time is ripe to integrate the methods that have been developed for evaluating interfaces that belong to the RBI umbrella.

This workshop aimed to further the understanding of the challenges relating to evaluation methods specific to RBIs, and to identify effective practical responses to these challenges. It further aimed to enhance and promote the collaboration between researchers and practitioners that work in the field of design and evaluation of RBIs by cross-pollinating the work done in the RBI constituent interaction styles. The following is a non-exhaustive list of the topics that were discussed:

• Case studies of evaluations that applied a specific measure or evaluation method to RBI applications.
• Experimental studies of evaluation methods that hold potential for use in applied RBI settings.
• Conceptual frameworks that enable the evaluation of RBIs through subjective and objective measures.
• Studies that provide connections between user experience and usability measures in RBI contexts.
• Position papers on new evaluation methods or measures suitable for the evaluation of RBIs.

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