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If you've got the budget for $5 available, why not pay $5? I have done piece contracting of this sort when I was very newly out of undergrad and working three part-time jobs, plus doing paid unskilled usability testing and other piecework. It may only take 5 min, but that doesn't mean they're spending 8 hours a day doing this kind of thing. If you've judged student time and expertise are worth $5 and have the $5, I would go by considering how you treat the participants vs. whether you can attract enough. Best, Ruth On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Josh Welker <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > -- Ruth Kitchin Tillman Digital Collections Librarian Hesburgh Libraries 113 Hesburgh Library o: 574-631-6067 e: [log in to unmask]