Towards Reproducible Language-Based HRI Experiments: Open-Sourcing a Generalized Experiment Project

We are witnessing increasing calls for reproducibility and replicability in HRI studies to improve reliability and confidence in empirical findings. One solution to facilitate this is using a robot platform that researchers frequently use, making it easier to replicate studies to verify results. In this work, we focus on a popular, affordable, and rich-in-functionality robot platform, NAO/Pepper, and contribute a generalized experiment project specifically for conducting language-based HRI experiments where a robot instructs a human for a task, including objective data collection.