Researcher wellbeing and best practices in emotionally demanding research

Feuston, Jessica L. and Bhattacharya, Arpita and Andalibi, Nazanin and Ankrah, Elizabeth A. and Erete, Sheena and Handel, Mark and Moncur, Wendy and Vieweg, Sarah and Brubaker, Jed R.; (2022) Researcher wellbeing and best practices in emotionally demanding research. In: CHI 2022 - Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts . ACM, USA. ISBN 9781450391566 (https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3503742)

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Abstract

HCI researchers increasingly conduct emotionally demanding research in a variety of different contexts. Though scholarship has begun to address the experiences of HCI researchers conducting this work, there is a need to develop guidelines and best practices for researcher wellbeing. In this one-day CHI workshop, we will bring together a group of HCI researchers across sectors and career levels who conduct emotionally demanding research to discuss their experiences, self-care practices, and strategies for research. Based on these discussions, we will work with workshop attendees to develop best practices and guidelines for researcher wellbeing in the context of emotionally demanding HCI research; launch a repository of community-sourced resources for researcher wellbeing; document the experiences of HCI researchers conducting emotionally demanding research; and establish a community of HCI researchers conducting this type of work.

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