Open Science Practices by Early Career HCI Researchers: Perceptions, Challenges, and Benefits
<|reference_start|>Open Science Practices by Early Career HCI Researchers: Perceptions, Challenges, and Benefits: Many fields of science, including Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), have heightened introspection in the wake of concerns around reproducibility and replicability of published findings. Notably, in recent years the HCI community has worked to implement policy changes and mainstream open science practices. Our work investigates early-career HCI researchers' perceptions of open science and engagement with best practices through 18 semi-structured interviews. Our findings highlight key barriers to the widespread adoption of data and materials sharing, and preregistration, namely: lack of clear incentives; cultural resistance; limited training; time constraints; concerns about intellectual property; and data privacy issues. We observe that small changes at major conferences like CHI could meaningfully impact community norms. We offer recommendations to address these barriers and to promote transparency and openness in HCI.<|reference_end|>
@article{chakravorti2024open,
    title={Open Science Practices by Early Career HCI Researchers: Perceptions,
  Challenges, and Benefits},
    author={Tatiana Chakravorti, Sanjana Gautam, Priya Silverstein, Sarah M.
  Rajtmajer},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.04286},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2410.04286},
    primaryClass={cs.HC}
}