INFORMED CONSENT TO PARTICIPATE IN A RESEARCH PROJECT:
“Redesigned Cal Poly Portal Prototype: User Experience Testing”
INTRODUCTION
This form asks for your agreement to participate in a research project on user experience testing of a prototype of a redesigned Cal Poly Portal. Your participation involves a user experience interview. It is expected that your participation will take approximately thirty minutes to one hour. There are no risks anticipated with your participation. You may personally benefit from this study and others may benefit from your participation. If you are interested in participating, please review the following information:
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY AND PROPOSED BENEFITS
The purpose of the study is to perform user testing on a prototype of a redesigned Cal Poly Portal to allow a more thorough investigation into how the users (students) interact with these systems.
Potential benefits associated with the study include deeper insights into students’ pain points so they can be addressed by designing and adapting future systems accordingly.
YOUR PARTICIPATION
If you agree to participate, you will be asked to attend a recorded Zoom call where you will share your screen, thoughts, and comments as you go through two to three tasks utilizing the virtual lab systems. The sessions will be auto-transcribed using Otter.ai with transcript corrections by the researchers and participants will be given the opportunity to review the transcript. Recordings will be stored on an encrypted hard drive and shared with the project team via encrypted email and file submission processes; recordings will be destroyed after transcription has occurred.
Your participation will take approximately thirty to sixty minutes in one session.
PROTECTIONS AND POTENTIAL RISKS
Please be aware that you are not required to participate in this research, refusal to participate will not involve any penalty or loss of benefits to which you are otherwise entitled, and you may discontinue your participation at any time. You may omit responses to any questions you choose not to answer and will be given the opportunity to review the Zoom meeting recording.
There are no risks related to your participation.
Your confidentiality will be protected as your name and other identifying information will not be used in reports of this research. All data associated with your participation will be stripped of identifiers and coded alpha-numerically. This informed consent form, with your signature and name, will be stored in a locked filing cabinet in the faculty advisor’s office.
Identifying data will be removed from the identifiable private information and that, after such removal, the information could be used for future research studies or distributed to another researcher for future studies without additional informed consent.
RESOURCES AND CONTACT INFORMATION
If you should experience any emotional distress, please be aware that you may contact or visit Cal Poly Health & Wellbeing at 805-756-2511, Room 27-136.
This research is being conducted by Sejal Kargal, a student in the College of Engineering at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, under the supervision of Dr. Franz Kurfess. If you have questions regarding this study or would like to be informed of the results when the study is completed, please contact the researcher at
skargal@calpoly.edu, or the researcher’s faculty advisor, Dr. Kurfess at
fkurfess@calpoly.edu.
If you have concerns regarding the manner in which the study is conducted, you may contact Dr. Michael Black, Chair of the Cal Poly Institutional Review Board, at (805) 756-2894,
mblack@calpoly.edu, or Ms. Trish Brock, Director of Research Compliance, at (805) 756-1450,
pbrock@calpoly.edu.
AGREEMENT TO PARTICIPATE
If you are 18 and older and agree to voluntarily participate in this research project as described, please indicate your agreement by signing below. Please keep a copy of this form for your reference, and thank you for your participation in this research.
