Literature Reviews in HCI: A Review of Reviews
Paper in proceeding, 2023
This paper analyses Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) literature reviews to provide a clear conceptual basis for authors, reviewers, and readers. HCI is multidisciplinary and various types of literature reviews exist, from systematic to critical reviews in the style of essays. Yet, there is insufficient consensus of what to expect of literature reviews in HCI. Thus, a shared understanding of literature reviews and clear terminology is needed to plan, evaluate, and use literature reviews, and to further improve review methodology. We analysed 189 literature reviews published at all SIGCHI conferences and ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) up until August 2022. We report on the main dimensions of variation: (i) contribution types and topics; and (ii) structure and methodologies applied. We identify gaps and trends to inform future meta work in HCI and provide a starting point on how to move towards a more comprehensive terminology system of literature reviews in HCI.
literature review
meta-analysis
meta review
literature survey
method
Author
Evropi Stefanidi
Universität Bremen
Marit Bentvelzen
Utrecht University
Paweł W. Woźniak
Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Interaction Design and Software Engineering
Thomas Kosch
Humboldt University of Berlin
Mikolaj P. WoÅniak
The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Thomas Mildner
Universität Bremen
Stefan Schneegass
University of Duisburg-Essen
Heiko Müller
Offis
The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Jasmin Niess
University of Oslo
University of St Gallen
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
509
9781450394215 (ISBN)
2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023
Hamburg, Germany,
Hamburg, Germany,
PAPACUI: Proficiency Awareness in Physical ACtivity User Interfaces
Swedish Research Council (VR) (2022-03196), 2023-01-01 -- 2026-12-31.
Subject Categories
Human Computer Interaction
DOI
10.1145/3544548.3581332