[Hudlug] OT: Participants needed soon

Tim hudlug at mailman.lug.org.uk
Wed May 28 12:43:01 2003


sarah@myplace.uklinux.net wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> As many of you already know I'm still working away at my PhD.  Well I'm
> going to be conducting some experiments for which I'll need participants. 
> Finding willing volunteers is not the most fun job in the world, especially
> when they have to agree to come to the lab when the lab is available...  So
> I'm hoping to be able to run my experiments online.  That makes sense really
> since I'm investigating chat room interfaces.  It means I can be more
> flexible as to when the sessions are run.  But doing it this way means the
> volunteers need to install the chat client.  The session itself takes about
> 30 min in the lab, so it should be similar online.

Well, if it runs under linux, then I'm up for it.

You should maybe also ask the people who are always on IRC :)

Tim