HCI Study Participant Recruiting Resources

Here are some suggestions for finding and recruiting healthy study participants from different populations.

Recruiting from the General Population

Vancouver Public Library (22 VPL locations)
Vancouver Park Board Community Centres (24 VPB-CC locations)
http://vancouver.craigslist.ca/vol/[Vancouver Craigslist Online Classifieds / Volunteers section]]
- Be careful about advertising renumeration online: you may end up with a split population of participants: some interested in the research, others merely in it for the money (which could contribute to a bimodal distribution of your dependent variables)
Kijiji Online Classifieds / Volunteers section
- (same caveat as above)
Coffee shops, supermarkets

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

Posters in off-campus locations (see complete list above above)
- Seniors' communities:
  - Tapestry at UBC (Westbrook village across from Save-On Foods)
    - Attn: Antonia Rozario - 24hr reception desk, 2 bulletin board locations
  - Joanna's building's bulletin board
Seniors centres:
- Kerrisdale Seniors Centre (part of VPB's Kerrisdale community centre)
  - 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)
- Oakridge Seniors Centre (no response)
- South Granville Seniors Centre (no response)
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 newspaper
Snowball recruiting

-- MatthewBrehmer - 23 Jan 2012

Topic revision: r2 - 2012-01-23 - MatthewBrehmer