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+1 Ruth! Further reading on MTurk's business model, demographics, etc.: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-unknown-poorl y-paid-labor-force-powering-academic-research https://priceonomics.com/mechanical-turk-new-face-of-behavioral-science/ Allana Mayer Media Coordinator, OurDigitalWorld On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 9:06 AM, Ruth Tillman <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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] >