Last updated: 13 May
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| Milestone | New Due Date |
|---|---|
| User and Feature analyses | 27 May (Thurs.) |
| Task analysis | 05 June (Wed.) |
| Design document | 26 June (Wed.) |
| Testing strategy | 08 July (Mon.) |
| final deadline to get consent form approved | 16 July (Tue.) |
| Demonstration | 22 July (Mon.) |
| Final Revision and | 29 July (Mon.) |
| Portfolio | |
| Group work report and | 02 August (Fri.) |
| Lessons learned |
Informed consent is essential for human experimentation regardless of how simple the experiment or how slight the risk. You must have each participant in your tests give their permission to: participate in the experiment and for you to use the data collected from their participation. Their permission must be informed, i.e. they must know what they are being asked to do and what risks and benefits might arise from their participation.
The form that you use must be approved by an independent review. Because this project is part of a course you can have it reviewed by the Faculty of Computer Science Ethics Review Committee. Dr. Watters is the sole member of that committee and you will need to obtain her approval of your form before you can use it to obtain informed consent.
I have prepared a boilerplate consent form in text format for you to adapt to your specific experiment. You may want to include additional details about your experiment in it but be careful not to exceed one page because then people won't want to read it.
The boilerplate form is in consent.txt. There are some examples on reserve in the library about testing and experimental consent (by Nielsen and Shneiderman).
The HTML sample consent form includes an image you can use to make your own `letterhead'.
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