Research hotspots and trends of human-computer collaboration: A bibliometric analysis

Human-computer collaboration represents a crucial model for future human-machine relationships. There is an urgent need to summarize its current state, delineate its research trajectory, and explore future trends. This paper employs a bibliometric approach, using 1713 human-computer collaboration-related publications from the Web of Science core database as initial data. With the scientific bibliometrics and software tools like VOSviewer and CiteSpace, this study creates a scientific knowledge map, which includes publication year distribution, countries, research institutions, authors, keyword clustering, and citation network analysis, facilitating a comprehensive understanding of the field. This research aims to provide a comprehensive overview of international human-computer collaboration research from 1990 to November 2024, identifying current research hotspots and theoretical foundations and exploring new trends in line with current research focuses. This research trend will drive the field of human-computer collaboration to continue to evolve towards intelligence, user-orientation, efficiency and provides a wealth of research opportunities for closer human-computer collaboration.