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Creating A New Type of Experiment

1.  Type the following address into your browser: http://experiments.cess.fas.nyu.edu/cessWeb/AdminHome

2.  Type in your email address & password given to you by the administrator.

Logging In

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Creating A New Type of Experiment

3.  Select Experimenter Home

4.  Select To create a new type of experiment

Creating a new type of experiment

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Creating A New Type of Experiment Creating a new type of experiment cont’d…

6. Enter a new Experiment Type Name

7.  Enter a brief description of the experiment

8.  Once completed, select Register

5.  Select New

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Creating A New Type of Experiment Scheduling a new experiment

9.  Select To schedule a new experiment

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Creating A New Type of Experiment Scheduling a new experiment

10.  Fill out the appropriate fields. Note: Attributes are defined in the Notes field.

11.  Attributes labeled as *Required in the Requirement field must be filled in.

12.  Briefly describe the duration of time the experiment will take, and the payment scheme (i.e., if there will be a show up fee, and its amount.).

a) 24 Hour notation used E.g., 4:00pm = 16:00

13.  All subjects must be In (i.e., NYU students).

b)  Experiment Status: should be Open

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Creating A New Type of Experiment Scheduling a new experiment cont’d…

14.  There are two main points of concern in the experiment filter portion of experiment scheduling.

a)   Experiment Type Filter: The name of the experiment to be filtered – established when creating a new experiment type see page 3. Note: There are two types, “Experiment name”-participation, and “Experiment name”-signup.

b)  Experiment Type Filter Help Menu: This menu will allow the experimenter to filter subjects whom have already participated in experiments, and/or those whom have already signed up for experiments.

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Creating A New Type of Experiment Scheduling a new experiment cont’d…

i.  Experiment name – participation; Don’t Care: This filter allows both experienced and non-experienced subjects to enroll in the same experiment.

ii.  Experiment name – participation; In: This filter restricts enrollment to those whom have already participated in previous experiments of the same type.

v.  Experiment name – participation; Not In: This filter restricts participation to those whom have not participated in the said experiment.

vi.  Experiment name – signup; Don’t Care: This filter allows subjects to enroll in several sessions for the same experiment.

vii.  Experiment name – signup; In: This restricts enrollment to those whom have already enrolled in the same experiment.

viii.  Experiment name – signup; Not In: This filter restricts subjects to enroll (sign up) for just one session of a given experiment.

ix.  To filter out subjects whom have previously enrolled in an experiment, for example A – Decision Making, select Not In from the three options (Don’t Care, In, and Not In) from the Experiment Filter Help Menu.

15.  Select Email Notification: to notify all subjects of the experiment being posted.

16.  Select Schedule Experiment: upon completion of the previous steps. iii.  To only allow an individual to sign up for one experiment,

for example A – Decision Making, select Not In from the drop down list.

Note: Once the experiment has commenced this filter will not restrict experienced participants from re-enrolling unless attendance is recorded.

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Creating A New Type of Experiment Scheduling a new experiment cont’d… (sending e-mail to subject pool)

18.  Select Send to email subjects.

17.  Add any additional instructions to this email, which will be sent to all subjects, to the Email Content.

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Recording Attendance Scheduling a new experiment cont’d… (sending e-mail to subject pool)

19.  Select To enter participant information for an experiment to record the attendance.

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Recording Attendance Scheduling a new experiment cont’d… (sending e-mail to subject pool)

20.  There are three fields of importance when recording attendance: a)   No Show: This field is to be

selected if the subject did not arrive for the experiment.

b)  Showed Up: This field is to be selected if the participant arrived at the experiment site but was not used.

c)   Participant: This field is to be used if the subject participated in the experiment.

21.  Select Submit Participant Information: to complete the recording process.