Research Overview

DLRL supports research across many of the areas of computing. Since there are numerous projects related to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), we often do experiments involving human subjects. Thus, there are multiple projects requiring IRB approval - see below for an old list of some of those studies, with details, to help those designing future studies.

Old IRB (Institutional Review Board) list

2013

• Investigating the Quality of Automatically Generated Tags for Disaster Webpages
  1. IRB form
  2. Biographical Sketch 1
  3. Biographical Sketch 2
  4. Experiment procedure
  5. Informed Consent Form
  6. Recruitment Letter
  7. Study abstract
  8. Survey 1
  9. Survey 2
• A study of multiple topic assignment to disaster webpage content and inter-indexer consistency computation
  1. IRB form
  2. Biographical Sketch
  3. Demographics Questionnaire
  4. Experiment procedure
  5. Consent Form
  6. Main tasks
  7. Recruitment Letter
  8. Study abstract

2012

• Understanding how people work with parts of images in scholarly tasks
  1. Invitation letter, tasks, and questions
  2. Informed Consent Form

2010

• The Effect of Presenting Long Documents on a Large High-Resolution Display on Comprehension of Content and User Experience
  1. IRB form
  2. Consent Form
  3. Demographics Questionnaire
  4. Post-session interview questionnaire
  5. Recruitment letter
  6. Tasks questionnaire
• Evaluation of DL Curriculum Modules in Use
  1. Continuing Review Request Form
  2. Instructor sheets for participants

2007

• Comparing Summarization Techniques For Electronic Theses About Computing
  1. IRB amendment form
  2. Initial review application
  3. Subject Profile
  4. Recruitment flyer