🏃‍♀️Running Participants

Participant Arrives

Greeting and Parking

1. Greet the participants, ask them for their ID to check if they are indeed your participant and also check their age to make sure they are between 18-35.

2. Have them sit at the table next to the control room

3. Ask them if they need parking validation

   • [We need to fill in updated info here]

If they are arriving for their first session, then go over informed consent, otherwise skip to the Subject Database section.

Informed Consent

This is extremely important

Even though our studies are typically fairly benign, tedious, and present no real risk or harm to participants. They need to know what they are consenting to, what their rights are, and what their compensation will look like. FOR FMRI AND MURI STUDY: They should have completed their informed consent form on Docusign but you still need to remind them of the below since they did those forms a while ago so give them a description, remind them of their rights and compensation for the day.

1. Verbally provide them details so they can make an informed consent

During the informed consent you should convey:

• A brief description of what they will be doing and if there are any risks to them

You will be performing a number of different attention, memory, and problem solving tasks on a computer for a couple of hours. There are no risks to participating other than what you might experience in a typical office workplace setting.

• What their rights are

Your participation is completely voluntary and you have the right to withdraw from the study at any point in time. You will be compensated for however many sessions you participated in. We will not store any of your identifiable information with any behavioral, physiological, and self-report data we collect from you.

• What their compensation will be and how the will be compensated (this can vary a lot by study)

You can receive up to $ in total or # SONA credits for participating this study. [Describe how much they will be compensated for each session]. You will receive a check in the mail, but it may take up to a month or longer for your check to arrive after participating.

1. Ask them to read the informed consent in full detail and to let you know if they have any questions

2. Sign the consent form

Subject Database

This is another really important step. Do not forget!

While they are going over the consent form you need to:

1. If they are here for their first session, enter them into the next row on the Subject Database

2. Mark todays date in the column for what session they are here for

3. If they are here for their first session, on the Participant Schedule, enter their Subject ID from the Subject Database

4. On the Participant Schedule, highlight their row as here: ORANGE

Demographics

They can complete the demographics either on:

• Their phone by scanning the QR code

• The iPad

On their phone by scanning the QR code

1. Have them scan the QR code

2. Tell them their Subject ID they need to enter

The iPad

1. Open the Demographics 'web app' for them

2. Enter their Subject ID for them

To the Running Room

While walking them over to the running room, tell them:

• They should have their phone on silent

• Let them know where the bathrooms and water are at

• Let them know they can take extended breaks in between tasks if they need to but not in the middle of a task (even if the task has a rest break in it).

• Remind them their participation is voluntary and that they can withdraw at any time

Admistering Tasks

Reminders for Running Participants

Setup at Computer

1. Seat them in one of the computer stations

2. Instruct them to scoot their chair close to the desk

3. Instruct them to place the headphone on

4. Tell them you will start them in just a minute

Log Book

1. Open the log book on the iPad in the running room

2. Enter in the Subject ID, Date, Time, Session #, and Computer Station

3. Add any notes about comments, issues, or problems with the tasks and/or participant