Please read the study design approved the cmu irb

17-396/17-696/17-960: Language Design and Prototyping, Spring 2020

Assignment 9: Human Subjects Study

Logistics

All clarifications (if any) to this assignment will be posted on the class discussion board on . Any revisions will be uploaded to the “assignments” page on the class web page.

Part II: Carry Out Your Study

Identify some friends or colleagues with whom you can carry out your study. Schedule an appropriate amount of time and run the study with them, collecting data according to your plan.

programming tasks. The study will take no more than (three) hours. If you are at least

18 years old (and have at least a year of Java experience), I would appreciate your help.”

• Be sure to collect a consent form (also posted on the website) from your participants.

• It is unlikely that anything bad will happen during the study, because all of our studies are minimal risk. However, if something does, we’re obligated to report it to the IRB. You

• All records from the research must be kept for 3 years. I can help with that if you want me to, or you can keep it securely yourself.

None of the above restrictions are strictly required if you don’t want the ability to publish

Look at the data you have gathered. Consider the following kinds of questions and analysis

techniques, and apply them where applicable:

• Are there numerical metrics of success (e.g. how many subjects succeeded or failed at a task? how many portions did each subject complete? how long did it take? do they like

your system?) If so, report them.

Discuss the limitations of your study. What might cause the hypotheses you developed to be wrong? What would you have liked to learn but didn’t? Did something not go as well as you liked? Part of scientific maturity is being up front about the imperfections in the science that you do; this can help you (and others) to improve the science the next time the question is studied, and it also gives readers confidence that the things you did report are worth paying attention to.

What changes will you make to your language as a result of your study?