With Human-Centric Research (HCR) we can steer research activities so that the research outcome is beneficial for human stakeholders, such as end users. But what exactly makes research human-centric? We address this question by providing a working definition and define how a research pipeline can be split into different stages in which human-centric components can be added. Additionally, we discuss existing NLP with HCR components and define a series of guiding questions, which can serve as starting points for researchers interested in exploring human-centric research approaches. We hope that this work would inspire researchers to refine the proposed definition and to pose other questions that might be meaningful for achieving HCR.
@article{arxiv.2207.04447,
title = {Human-Centric Research for NLP: Towards a Definition and Guiding Questions},
author = {Bhushan Kotnis and Kiril Gashteovski and Julia Gastinger and Giuseppe Serra and Francesco Alesiani and Timo Sztyler and Ammar Shaker and Na Gong and Carolin Lawrence and Zhao Xu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.04447},
year = {2022}
}