Informed Consent of Participation
You are invited to participate in the online study Bachelor Thesis: initiated and conducted by Samantha Geller, Le My Ngo and Markus Stangl. The research is based on Markus Binks Bachelor Thesis and is supervised by Dr. David Elsweiler at the University of Regensburg. Please note:
- Your participation is entirely voluntary
- Based on pre-tests, the online study should take around 30-45 minutes
- We will record personal demographics (age, gender, etc.)
- We may publish our results from this and other sessions in our reports, but all such reports will be confidential and will neither include your name nor cannot be associated with your identity
- If you wish to take part, make sure you are using a desktop computer or laptop. The experiment is not optimised for mobile devices.
- Also make sure that your browser allows Javascript and Cookies since they are required for the study to function properly.
If you have any questions or complaints about the whole informed consent process of this research study or your rights as a human reserach subject, please contact Samantha Geller (E-Mail: samantha.geller@stud.uni-regensburg.de). You should carefully read the information below. Please take as much time as you need to read the consent form.
1. Purpose and Goal of this Research
The purpose of this study is to examine how users perceive automatically created summaries from websites. The goal of this study is to understand how well the presented text snippets answer the question at hand. Your participation will help us achieve this goal. The results of this research may be presented at scientific or professional meetings or published in scientific proceedings and journals.
2. Participation and Compensation
Your participation in this online study is completely voluntary. You may withdraw and discontinue participation at any time without justification for withdrawing. If you decline to participate or withdraw from the online study, no one on the campus will be informed.
3. Procedure
After confirming your informed consent you will:
- be given 10 questions which you will answer with the help of provided exemplary search results.
- be presented with a short post-study questionnaire
- asked to answer some demographic questions
The complete procedure of this online study will last approximately 15 minutes.
4. Risks and Benefits
There are no risks associated with this online study. Discomforts or inconveniences will be minor and are not likely to happen. If any discomforts become a problem, you may discontinue your participation.
5. Data Protection and Confidentiality
Personal data (age, gender, etc.) will be recorded while participation. The researcher will not identify you by your real name in any reports using information obtained from this online study and that your confidentiality as a participant in this online study will remain secure and encrypted. All data you provide in this online study will be published anonymized and treated confidentially in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union (EU). Subsequent uses of records and data will be subject to standard data use policies which protect the full anonymity of the participating individuals. In all cases, uses of records and data will be subject to the GDPR. Faculty and administrators from the campus will not have access to raw data or transcripts. This precaution will prevent your individual comments from having any negative repercussions. This site uses cookies and other tracking technologies to conduct the research, to improve the user experience, the ability to interact with the system and to provide additional content from third parties. Despite careful control of content, the researchers assume no liability for damages, which directly or indirectly result from the use of this online application. Any recordings cannot be viewed by anyone outside this research project unless we have you sign a separate permission form allowing us to use them (see below). Records that have not been made public are automatically deleted after the end of the research. The records will be destroyed if you contact the researcher to destroy or delete them immediately. As with any publication or online related activity, the risk of a breach of confidentiality is always possible. According to the GDPR, the researchers will inform the participant if a breach of confidential data was detected.
6. Identification of Investigators
If you have any questions or concerns about the research, please feel free to contact:
Samantha Geller
samantha.geller@stud.uni-regensburg.de
Le My Ngo
le-my.ngo@stud.uni-regensburg.de
Markus Stangl
markus.stangl@stud.uni-regensburg.de