6.893 User Interface Design & Implementation
Fall 2003

PS5: Human Subjects Training

Due Wed, Nov 5, 12:30 pm, by email

In this individual assignment, you will take and pass the Human Subjects Training course offered by MIT's Office of Sponsored Programs:

Training: Research Involving Human Subjects

The course is an online course. It takes about an hour to read, and concludes with a 20-question test about what you've read. You have to get all 20 questions right, but you get a chance to revise your wrong answers. Once you have answered all the questions correctly, you will receive a certificate of completion by email.

We're requiring you to take this online course for two reasons. First, its content is relevant to this class and important to anyone doing user testing. Second, MIT now requires all researchers involved in experiments with human subjects to pass this online course. So you will come out of this class already certified to do user studies in your graduate research.

What to Hand In

By 12:30 pm, Wednesday, November 5, you should forward your certificate of completion to both Rob Miller (rcm@mit.edu) and Jaime Teevan (teevan@ai.mit.edu).

If you have already taken the training course, you don't need to take it again. Just forward your certificate of completion or some other evidence that you passed.