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Recruiting from the General Population
Off-campus
On-campus
- hci-experiments@csDELETEthisTEXT.ubc.ca mailing list
- Undergraduate, graduate secretaries from other departments who can forward your call for participants
- HCI courses: CPSC 344 / 444 / 544 / 543 students (in-class announcements)
- Physical posters
- Get permission from dept. representative first for departmental buldings
- ICICS / CS - ugrad bulletin boards: West Wing, floor 0
- PSYC dept. bulletin boards in the Kenny building
- Bulletin boards @ Doug Mitchell Thunderbird arena, Osborne gym (Thunderbird & East Mall), the SUB, Rec centre, libraries, residences
- Bulletin boards in the UBC village
Recruiting Older Adults (55+)
- Posters in off-campus locations (see complete list above above)
- Seniors' communities:
- Tapestry at UBC (Westbrook village across from Save-On Foods)
- Joanna's building's bulletin board
- Seniors centres:
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- Attn: Susan Mele, Seniors' Programmer: (604) - 257-8111 (call, leave voicemail - email response may be delayed)
- It's possible to recruit participants in person here: set up a booth in the lobby during lunch rush, games and other scheduled activities (talk to Susan to find out when these are happening)
- Conduct studies here (quiet music practice rooms are available in the community centre, above the library, book with Susan)
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- Attn: Jennifer Takai, Senior's Programmer: (604) 257-8111 (call or email get timely respones)
- Alt: Susan Mele, Recreation Supervisor: (604) 257-8118 (call or email get timely respones)
- It's possible to recruit participants in person here: set up a booth in the lobby during lunch rush, games and other scheduled activities (talk to Jennifer to find out when these are happening)
- Conduct studies here (quiet music practice rooms are available in the community centre, above the library, book with Jennifer)
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- Attn: Alex Korotchenko, Program and Volunteer Coordinator: (604) - 732-0812, email and calling worked but respones could be delayed, best to stop by in-person
- Can recruit participants by setting up a table in the lobby during their community lunches, but seniors come here for specific activities so the amount of interest (or free time to talk) can vary wildly
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- VPB Community Centres, VPL locations visited for the C-TOC study (little / no response aside from a small handful of callers after the experiment had concluded):
- Douglas Park Community Centre
- Mount Pleasant Community Centre
- False Creek / Athletes' Village Recreation Centre
- False Creek Community Centre
- Kitsilano Community Centre
- Dunbar community centre
- VPL (Vancouver Public Library) Mount Pleasant
- VPL South Granville
- VPL Kitsilano
- VPL West Point Grey
- Place an ad in the Courier
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- Snowball recruiting
Recruiting Children
-- MatthewBrehmer - 23 Jan 2012 |
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