Index of this page:

• About the UX-Lab
• Who can use the lab?
• Instructions for making lab reservations
• Reservations calendar
• Pictures of the lab
• Lab rules
• Useful links
• Lab manager

• If you are using Gmail, you can use the UX-Lab's Google Calendar (preferred). You need to register once, by sending an email to the lab manager requesting access to the UX-Lab Google Calendar. Once the lab manager sends you the address with the modifiable calendar, you can use this to enter events on the calendar yourself.
• If you don't use Gmail or Google calendar and don't intend to, you can send a request to the lab manager with all the details about your experiment or demonstration, as specified below. In this case, the lab manager will add your event to the calendar for you.

• date(s) and time(s) that you intend to use the lab (point and drag a time slot in the calendar, or use Edit event details)
• a title for your experiment (title field)
• a short but clear description of your experiment, consisting of a few lines (Edit event details, enter in description field)
• the resources you would like to use to carry out the experiment, e.g., how many cameras?, tripods?, etc. (description field)
• your name and contact details, including your research group, email and phone number -important! (description field)
• set the options 'Show me as busy' and 'privacy: default'

Design of rear projection setup (top view).

Design of rear projection setup (front view).

Lab rules

• Always close the lab when you leave it, even if only for a minute
• Look after the safety of yourself and your participants at all times
• Please plan ahead and book the lab ahead of time for your experiments
• Keep the lab clean (no food is allowed in the lab)
• For each experiment please create a folder on the lab network drive to put all your instruments (questionnaires codebooks and such), raw data and video feed
• After you have run an experiment, please post a short report of your experiment on the lab blog (to do: create lab blog)
• Please note that each experiment will have to adhere to the ethical guidelines for research with human subjects. To be safe, fill in this form for each study you intend to run and we'll have this evaluated by the Ethical Committee's Internal Review Board of the University of Amsterdam. You want to allow at least three weeks for this process. All the information for this will be made available on the User Evaluation Lab blog and the information session. (to do: create lab blog)

• Ethical guidelines for user studies:
  • All users of the lab are expected to adhere to the relevant ethical guidelines, such as the general ethical guidelines of the UvA's ethical committee.
    
  • For more specific information related to informatics research, see for example the information at the University of Edinburgh about the Informatics Guidelines on Research Ethics.
  • When performing experiments with human subjects, please consult the Code Of Conduct of the British Psychological Society or the Code of Conduct of the American Psychological Association. We're in the process of determining a code of conduct together with the Psychology department of the UvA regarding studies with people and ICT.
• Examples of consent forms for participants in user studies:
  • A template for a participant consent form with UvA logo (Word doc file)
  • A template for a participant consent form from the University of Edinburgh
• Links to other research labs for user experience studies:
  • The Perception Lab at ICCS/HCRC, University of Edinburgh
  • The Eye Tracking Lab at HCRC, University of Edinburgh
  • The HCI Group at Stanford University
  • The Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University
  • The Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford University
  • The Pervasive Interaction Lab at the Open University, Milton Keynes (UK)
  • The Music Research Studio and Music Computing Lab at the Open University, Milton Keynes (UK)
  • Information about Lab Experiment facilities from Psychology at the UvA
  • The Intertain - Home Lab at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam