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Thanks, Steven. That article is helpful. Funding will not be an issue for my university. My main concern is whether using MTurk is too cumbersome and whether its results are valid. I plan to limit my tasks to college-age people in USA, but I can't get much more granular than that. Whether that is a valid substitution for using actual students from our campus is a concern. We currently pay $5 per student for very small-scale usability testing in-house but have problems finding willing students. I think based on standard MTurk job rates I could probably pay in the $2 range for a task that takes 5 minutes and get a reasonable number of willing participants. Joshua Welker Information Technology Librarian James C. Kirkpatrick Library University of Central Missouri Warrensburg, MO 64093 JCKL 2260 660.543.8022 On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Turner, Steven <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > At my university, the biggest impediment would be funding the MTurk > activities, that is, getting the university to agree to pay using their > method. > Steven Turner, MLIS > Manager, Web Technologies and Development, Assistant Professor > University Libraries > The University of Alabama<https://www.ua.edu/> > 416 Gorgas Library | Box 870266, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0266 > office 205-348-1638 > steven.j.turner<mailto:[log in to unmask]>@ua.edu | > http://www.lib.ua.edu/ > > [cid:[log in to unmask]] > <https://www.ua.edu/> > <https://www.ua.edu/> > > On Apr 26, 2017, at 10:51 AM, Josh Welker <[log in to unmask]<mailto:welker > @UCMO.EDU>> wrote: > > I'm thinking of using Amazon Mechanical Turk to do quick testing on some > new UIs for our library website. The testing needs to be done over summer > when there are few students available. Does anyone have experience using > MTurk for UI testing and have any pointers for what works well and what > doesn't? I've read a few things on Google but didn't find it very helpful. > > Joshua Welker > Information Technology Librarian > James C. Kirkpatrick Library > University of Central Missouri > Warrensburg, MO 64093 > JCKL 2260 > 660.543.8022 > >