Since 2020, the human-robot interaction (HRI) research community has become increasingly attentive to concerns over the reproducibility of its research, but the potential magnitude of the “replicability problem” in HRI is yet unknown. In other disciplines studying human behavior, large-scale, multi-site replication projects were instrumental for defining the replicability problem and helped spur widespread community adoption of better research practices. 

We seek to build a community of HRI researchers who are interested in replication science and helping to define what makes for meaningful replication. It is too easy to run replications that are uninteresting and unimpactful; to advance the science of HRI we need to run replications of studies that provide theoretically important findings to the literature, or where corroboration across a more diverse sample would increase the significance of the findings. 

The outcome of this workshop will be a playbook for conducting large-scale replication projects in HRI. Workshop participants are invited to contribute as co-author to the playbook.