Open Science in HRI

The Need for Open Science

Open science, particularly open access to data and code, is crucial. By openly sharing data and code, researchers can facilitate collaboration and accelerate scientific progress in understanding HRI. This approach enhances the rigor of research, encourages innovation, and ensures that findings are accessible and applicable across diverse contexts, ultimately advancing the development of more effective and ethically informed human-robot interactions.

The Power of Meta-Analysis

One of the major benefits of open science is that it allows for more direct use of the existing literature via meta-analysis and systematic review. Meta-analyses overcome the limitations of any single study by quantitatively combining the results of multiple studies in order to build an overall estimation of the presence and strength of a relationship (i.e. effect size) across a body of literature. As a result, meta-analyses have the potential to consolidate and refocus what we know based on what we've found not as individual scholars but as an entire field of research.