In week 6, I did a pilot run of the questionnaire with a couple of people in the lab, just to make sure everything works the way it should, and see if there were any bugs or issues that should be fixed before the actual study. Only 1 bug was found, the use of single quotes or apostrophes in the text input areas through off the code, so I had to encode all strings before trying to insert the data into the database.
While the pilot was running, I began recruiting for the study. I printed out a poster advertising the study, and posted it up all over campus, except in the Computer Science building (we don't want any experts, just average computer users). Since it's a field study lasting 2 weeks, we are offering a $100 gift certificate for participation, and I think this factored quite a bit into the fact that I got quite a few responses in the 24 hours after the posters were put up.
I also began doing the write up of the experimental method for this study, which basically includes what kind of study we are doing, how we are running it, how we are recruiting. Pretty much, everything that I can write up without having any data. This study is going to be turned into a paper to be submitted to the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, so having it written up early will help with making the paper as solid as possible.
Next week, I will be starting the initial interviews of subjects, and the study will begin!
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