Configuring Humans: What Roles Humans Play in HRI Research
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A content analysis of ACM HRI papers from 2006–2021 classifies human roles into three types: generalizable subjects, contextualized users, social actors and finds subcategories for Types 2 and 3; the coding of 16 years of proceedings reveals 60% didn’t consider real-use context and only 5% enabled participant collaboration; the paper argues for more contextualization, collaboration, and reflexivity to surface neglected populations and shift epistemic goals beyond reproducibility and generalizability.
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