Are You Open? A Content Analysis of Transparency and Openness Guidelines in HCI Journals

Nicholas Ballou, Vivek R Warriar, Christoph Sebastian Deterding

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Abstract

Within the wider open science reform movement, HCI researchers are actively debating how to foster transparency in their own field. Publication venues play a crucial role in instituting open science practices, especially journals, whose procedures arguably lend themselves better to them than conferences. Yet we know lit- tle about how much HCI journals presently support open science practices. We identified the 51 most frequently published-in jour- nals by recent CHI first authors and coded them according to the Transparency and Openness Promotion guidelines, a high-profile standard of evaluating editorial practices. Results indicate that jour- nals in our sample currently do not set or specify clear openness and transparency standards. Out of a maximum of 29, the modal score was 0 (mean = 2.5, SD = 3.6, max = 15). We discuss potential reasons, the aptness of natural science-based guidelines for HCI, and next steps for the HCI community in furthering openness and transparency.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’21),
PublisherACM
Publication statusAccepted/In press - 21 Jan 2021

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