Programmers of All Levels Needed for Research Study! ($20)

Do you regularly code and seek information on the Internet? If so, I would like to invite you to participate in a study of programmers’ online information seeking. Pei-Yao (Perry) Hung, a graduate student from the School of Information at the University of Michigan, is conducting a study to understand how programmers with various levels of expertise seek information online regarding their programming tasks.

All the details (e.g., qualifications) of the study are included here: http://bit.ly/146na6b

The study will span 2 weeks and take less than 30 minutes each week for you, with the option to extend it to 4 weeks if interested. If you successfully complete the study, you will receive gift cards ($20 for a pre-study interview and the first two weeks, with an additional $20 for the optional two weeks and a follow-up interview) for your effort.

Please consider participating in this study and help share this information to people who might be interested.

Contact Perry through peiyaoh@umich.edu if you can participate or you have any questions.

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