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Research Participant Information and Electronic Consent/Authorization Form

Study Title: TopeSys Utility and Usability Evaluation
Principal Investigator: Brad Myers (bam@cs.cmu.edu)

The purpose of the study is to evaluate a system that helps you find typos and reformat textual data. You will be able to use your computer to teach our system how to recognize different kinds of data, such as phone numbers, street addresses, and person names. Then, you will be able to use the system to find and correct typos in your spreadsheets, web applications, or web macros.

This system was designed to respect your security and privacy. It will not automatically modify any of your data without your direction. Although it will log occasions when you teach the system how to recognize a kind of data, it will not automatically log your data values. For example, if you teach the system how to recognize phone numbers, then the system would record this teaching event, including what a phone number looks like. However, it will not automatically log any phone numbers in your data. Therefore, all data logged automatically during this time will be completely anonymous, though you also will have the choice to explicitly share non-anonymous feedback and other data with the researchers and other users.

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (CMU) MAKES NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED AS TO ANY MATTER INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR PURPOSE, OR MERCHANTABILITY, EXCLUSIVITY OR RESULTS OBTAINED FROM SPONSOR'S USE OF ANY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DEVELOPED UNDER THIS AGREEMENT, NOR SHALL EITHER PARTY HERETO BE LIABLE TO THE OTHER FOR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES SUCH AS LOSS OF PROFITS OR INABILITY TO USE SAID INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OR ANY APPLICATIONS AND DERIVATION THEREOF. CMU DOES NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND WITH RESPECT TO FREEDOM FROM PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT, OR THEFT OF TRADE SECRETS AND DOES NOT ASSUME ANY LIABILITY HEREUNDER FOR ANY INFRINGEMENT OF ANY PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR COPYRIGHT ARISING FROM THE USE OF THE PROGRAM, INFORMATION, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, OR OTHER PROPERTY OR RIGHTS GRANTED OR PROVIDED TO IT HEREUNDER. THE USER AGREES THAT IT WILL NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTY ON BEHALF OF CMU, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, TO ANY PERSON CONCERNING THE APPLICATION OF OR THE RESULTS TO BE OBTAINED WITH THE PROGRAM UNDER THIS AGREEMENT. USERS ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE PROGRAM IS A RESEARCH TOOL STILL IN THE DEVELOPMENT STAGE, THAT IT IS BEING SUPPLIED "AS IS," WITHOUT ANY ACCOMPANYING SERVICES OR IMPROVEMENTS FROM CMU.

There will be no monetary cost to you if you participate in this study. The main risk of this study is that the software could possibly malfunction or damage some data, requiring you to uninstall it. You will not receive any monetary compensation for your participation in this study. The main benefit of this study is that it may save you time by helping you to find and correct typos. In addition, the knowledge received may be of value to humanity.

Your participation is voluntary. Refusal to participate or withdrawal of your consent or discontinued participation in the study will not result in any penalty or loss of benefits or rights to which you might otherwise be entitled. The Principal Investigator may at his/her discretion remove you from the study for any of a number of reasons. In such an event, you will not suffer any penalty or loss of benefits or rights which you might otherwise be entitled.

During data analysis and publication/presentation of results, your anonymity will be maintained by any or all of the following means: (1) You will be assigned a number, and names will not be displayed. (2) The researchers will save the data file and/or any video or audio recordings by your number, not by name. (3) Only members of the CMU Natural Programming research group and the EUSES Consortium will view collected data in detail. (4) Any recordings or files will be stored in a secured location accessed only by authorized researchers.

This study is funded by the National Science Foundation, which is supporting the costs of this research. Neither Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), nor Professor Brad Myers will receive any financial benefit based on the results of the study.

If you have any questions about this study, you should feel free to ask them now or anytime throughout the study by contacting:

	Professor Brad Myers
	Human-Computer Interaction Institute
	NSH 3517
	412-268-5150
	bam@cs.cmu.edu

If you have questions pertaining to your rights as a research participant; or to report objections to this Study, you should contact:

	IRB Chair
	c/o Regulatory Compliance Administration
	Carnegie Mellon University
	5000 Forbes Avenue
	Warner Hall, 4th Floor
	Pittsburgh, PA  15213
	Email: irb-review@andrew.cmu.edu
	(412) 268-1901 or (412) 268-4727

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I understand the nature of this study and agree to participate. I recognize that I can print a copy of this consent form. I give the Principal Investigator, and his/her associates, permission to present this work in written and/or oral form for teaching or presentations to advance the knowledge of science and/or academia, without further permission from me provided that my image or identity is not disclosed.