Addressing the Agony of Recruitment for Human-centric Computing Studies
Kashumi Madampe, John Grundy, Judith Good, Dulaji Hidellaarachchi, Jácome Cunha, Chris Brown, Peng Kuang, Reham Al Tamime, Ariful Islam Anik, Advait Sarkar, Wei Zhou, Shawal Khalid, Tommaso Turchi, Shavindra Wickramathilaka, Yue Jiang · ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes · 2025
We conducted a workshop on ''Addressing Challenges in Recruiting Participants for Human-Centric Computing Research Studies'' at the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)'24 Conference. In the workshop, we conducted a brainstorming session on ''roadmap development of making participant recruitment easier for human-centric computing studies in both industry and academia''. This article presents 7 stages of participant recruitment and key strategies identified by the authors (workshop participants) during the brainstorming session.