Appendix A

Requirements for Creating a Participant Recruitment Database

There are several things you should know if you want to set up your own participant database for recruiting people for your activity. Unfortunately, the creation of a participant database does not happen overnight. It will take some work on your part to create and maintain it.

Develop a Questionnaire for Potential Participants

There are a variety of avenues you can pursue to add people to your database. After you have considered the ethical and legal implications of collecting participant information (see Chapter 3, page 66), the next thing you will want to do is develop a questionnaire for potential participants to complete. This is the information that you will enter ...

Get Understanding Your Users, 2nd Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.