Sona Software Workshop University of Sussex Department of Psychology

Why Sona? Demonstrated increase in attendance/decrease in “no shows” Online sign-ups: no more scheduling s! Instant online booking Assign credits online Pre-screen participants notification of sign-ups and cancellations Loads more – ask us what it can do!

Logging In Sussexpsychology.sona-systems.com (no www) This is what you will see: Log in with your ID and password.

What you will see next: Add a New Study

Pick your study type We are going to start with a standard study

Enter your study info

Catch their attention! Tell them what you would say in an Don’t forget logistics! Choose the contact person and lab Studies are sent to the administrator for approval

Following up? Make sure they were in previous studies Mutually exclusive studies? Avoid recruiting previous participants Add a web link Set info for last sign- up/cancellation & notification You can even add notes to yourself

Preview On the preview page you can prescreen participants.

Preview From the preview page you will also send a request to the administrator to make your study active.

Prescreening Prescreening allows you to only show your experiment to the participants you want (e.g., males). Prescreening is maintained by the administrator. Contact the admini- strator to add items to the prescreening process.

Prescreening On the first page, select the items on which you would like to prescreen. On the next page, select the responses you would like to prescreen. You are selecting the response you WANT the participant to have had.

Timeslots and more You will have this information available under the information about your study. Click on “view/administer time slots.”

Timeslots You should now see this page:

Timeslots If you choose to add a timeslot, this page opens: Choose date & time You’ve already told the system the study duration. Don’t forget to tell people where to go! Multiple subjects can be run at once!

Timeslots The procedure is similar if you add multiple timeslots! Choose number of slots Choose start date and time Add number of participants and location Specify time btwn sessions

Timeslots This is what you should see when your timeslot is added:

Timeslots You can also monitor your time slot usage:

Additional Features The system also allows you to participants:

Additional Features The system also allows you to preview your study to see what the participant sees.

What do the participants see? Participants’ start pages have less information. But “study sign-up” is easy to find!

What do the participants see? Study sign-ups lists the active studies in random order (this screen shot only included 1). Participants can also see if times are available, number of credits, eligibility and your “tag line.”

What do the participants see? Once participants click on a study…. … they can choose to view available time slots at the bottom.

What do the participants see? Timeslots are listed like this: The participant just clicks on a time to sign up! The participant can still see other times after signing up, in case he/she wants to change to another time.

What do the participants see? Sona automatically sends an to them confirming the sign-up. The reply-to is the researchers! Depending on your settings (when you set-up your study) the system will you too! Sona also send the participant a confirmation the night before (~17:00).

What do the participants see? From the main page, participants can also track their credits and calendar.

Now that they signed up: You can also click on timeslots and see who is coming.

Now that they participated: When you go to “my studies” you can view your uncredited timeslots.

Now that they participated: To simply grant the standard amount of credit you specified, choose “grant credit.” To grant a variable amount of credit, click on the timeslot. 1 credit = 15min.

Now that they participated: Sona won’t let them participate again!