Fellow SILS Ph.D. Student Chirag Shah is doing some very interesting work on his Ph.D. You can be part of it – here is the information:
My name is Chirag Shah and I am a doctoral candidate at SILS, UNC Chapel Hill. The purpose of this email is to request your participation in a research study investigating a collaborative information seeking system.
This study requires a team of two. You need to sign up in pairs. Both the participants in a team should have worked on some project before (e.g., a class assignment). You need to sign up for two sessions, which are one to two weeks apart. Your participation will take approximately one and a half hour per session. Approximately 45 pairs of participants are being enrolled for this study.
The study will involve using an experimental system, called Coagmento, while surfing the Web. Coagmento is a plug-in for Firefox browser, which provides support for Web surfing in a team. You will be paid total $25 (per person) for two sessions (thus, a team will receive $50). The best performing team will also receive two iPod Shuffles.
To participate in this study, please visit http://www.coagmento.org/study1/signup.php and submit your request. The approval of this request is subject to meeting all the criteria specified above.
Choosing or declining to participate in this study will not affect your class standing or grades at UNC-Chapel Hill. You will not be offered or receive any special consideration if you take part in this research; it is purely voluntary. This study has been approved by the UNC Behavioral IRB (IRB Study 09-1037, Approval Date 6/10/2009), and will be supervised by Prof. Gary Marchionini (march@ils.unc.edu) at SILS.
Fred Stutzman is a doctoral student, researcher and teaching fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science. He studies how people use social media.
