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/
>
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> 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
>
>
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