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 Beyond software architecture, the methodological rigor of WoZ studies has been a subject of critical review. In a seminal systematic review, Riek \cite{Riek2012} analyzed 54 HRI studies and uncovered a widespread lack of consistency in how wizard behaviors were controlled and reported. The review noted that very few researchers reported standardized wizard training or measured wizard error rates, raising concerns about the internal validity of many experiments. This lack of rigor is often exacerbated by the tools themselves; when interfaces are ad-hoc or poorly designed, they increase the cognitive load on the wizard, leading to inconsistent timing and behavior that can confound study results.
 
 \section{Research Gaps}
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+Despite the rich landscape of existing tools, a critical gap remains for a platform that is simultaneously accessible, reproducible, and sustainable. Existing accessible tools are often too platform-specific to be widely adopted, while flexible, general-purpose frameworks often present a prohibitively high technical barrier. Furthermore, few tools directly address the methodological crisis identified by Riek by enforcing standardized protocols or actively guiding the wizard during execution. HRIStudio aims to fill this void by providing a web-based, robot-agnostic platform that not only lowers the barrier to entry for interdisciplinary researchers but also embeds methodological best practices directly into the experimental workflow.