Leichtmann, Benedikt http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9062-0996
Nitsch, Verena
Funding for this research was provided by:
Bundeswehr University Munich
Article History
Accepted: 29 July 2020
First Online: 7 September 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: We did not seek ethical approval from the ethics committee, as our study does not fulfill criteria where ethical approval is required in Germany. The reported study is non-invasive and non-clinical research on human subjects and subjects were informed about the purpose, aim, and risks of the studies and that risks are reasonably low. A coverstory was used, whereby participants were told before the experiment started that the purpose of the study was to test a conversation algorithm. Immediately after the experiment, participants were fully debriefed and informed of the actual focus of the study (social desirability bias), as well as the Wizard-of-Oz design. Participants were informed before the experiment that they are free to quit participation and data collection at any time during the experiment without any negative consequences—participation was thus voluntary. Our institute holds high data protection standards conforming to the current EU data privacy regulations. All data were collected in strictly pseudonymous form during the experiment and anonymized for data analysis later. Participants cannot be identified based on the data, since no personal data such as names and no pictures, videos or sound were stored. Every participant gave informed consent and agreed on being able and willing to participate in the experiment and data collection process voluntarily. Participant privacy is a key value that our university has committed itself to uphold.
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: For data analysis, the open-source software RStudio was used. The R-code used for data analysis is available.