Addressing the agony of recruitment for human-centric studies

Researchers conducting human-centric studies often struggle with recruiting suitable participants for their studies. A brainstorming session with the above researchers’ experiences investigates the challenges the researchers face and practical solutions to overcome them. The findings are to appear as an article in a practitioner-focused venue.

Publication

Madampe, K., Grundy, J., Hoda, R., Obie, H. The struggle is real! The agony of recruiting participants for empirical software engineering studies.

Project Lead

Dr Kashumi Madampe

Project Team

Prof John Grundy, Dr Dulaji Hidellaarachchi, Shavindra Wickramathilake, Prof Rashina Hoda, Dr Humphrey Obie, Judith Good (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), Advait Sarkar (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom), Reham Al Tamime (Qatar Computing Research Institute), Chris Brown and Shawal Khalid (Virginia Tech, United States), Wei Zhou (Monash University), Jacome Cunha (University of Porto, Portugal), Tommaso Turchi (University of Pisa, Italy), Ariful Islam Anik (University of Manitoba, Canada), Peng Kuang (Lund University, Sweden), Yue Jiang (Aalto University, Finland)