Verification through User Value: Or How to Avoid Drinking Your Own Bathwater in Ubicomp Evaluations

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Verification through User ValueOr How to
AvoidDrinking Your Own Bathwaterin Ubicomp
Evaluations

• Dr. Christopher A. Miller
• Harry B. Funk
• 30 September 2001
• Ubicomp-01 Atlanta, GA

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Validation and Verification

• Evaluation did we do a good job?

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Comprehensive Test

• Want entire system tested

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Gold Standard

• Testing complex systems

requires knowing the right outcome
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Recommendations

• Start with use cases known, specific examples
  of correct behavior