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Welcome to The Share Experiment!

After signing up you will be taken to a page where you can download share. The user name and password is the same one you will use when running the share application (so remember it :-). Your user name must start with a letter and only contain letters, numbers or underscores.

We will be running the main experiment starting Friday June 5th. A few days after that will make a release available for everyone who signed up that is not in the main competition. The delay is just to give us (me) time to ramp things up a bit more slowly and make sure nothing breaks. Thanks for your understanding.

Experimenters, once you are done signing up and obtaining the software. Kindly head over to the forums and introduce yourself...

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The Official Stuff.

As this is a research study you must consent to participate in order to participate. You should read this consent form and check the boxes if you agree. You can also download this as a pdf to read and keep for your records.

CONSENT TO PARTICIPATE IN NON-BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH
                Share: A networked Programming environment
                You are asked to participate in a research study conducted by Yannick Assogba, BSc. and Prof. Judith Donath, Ph.D, from the Media Arts and Sciences department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.). The results of this study will be included in Yannick Assogba’s Masters thesis. You were selected as a possible participant in this study because you are an adult who is familiar with the processing programming language and willing to openly share any code you produce during this study. You should read the information below, and ask questions about anything you do not understand, before deciding whether or not to participate.
                PARTICIPATION AND WITHDRAWAL
                Your participation in this study is completely voluntary and you are free to choose whether to be in it or not. If you choose to be in this study, you may subsequently withdraw from it at any time without penalty or consequences of any kind.  The investigator may withdraw you from this research if circumstances arise which warrant doing so. If there are too many volunteers we may have to select a subset of them for participation in the study, if this happens we will notify you.
                PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
                This study aims to evaluate the programming tool we have created, Share, to evaluate its usability and its support for collaboration and cooperation among programmers, and how that in turn affects their creativity and productivity.
                PROCEDURES
                If you volunteer to participate in this study, we would ask you to do the following things:
                1. Participate in our programming competition
                We will host a programming competition over the course of about 10 days; once you have downloaded our tool you are free to create processing sketches using it and your chosen frequency. At the end of the competition you will select one of your sketches to be eligible to win a prize.
                2. Fill out a questionnaire
                After the competition you will fill out a questionnaire about your experience using our tool.
                3. Optionally participate in an interview.
                Based on the responses in the questionnaire, we may be interested in further interviewing (by     telephone, email or in person) a subset of participants. This part is optional and you can decline if contacted.
                POTENTIAL RISKS AND DISCOMFORTS
                None
                POTENTIAL BENEFITS
                You should hopefully have fun.
                You will get to interact with other members of the processing community.
                You may get to learn new things from seeing other peoples code and approaches.
                You can contribute to the conversation on to design tools that facilitate co-operation among programmers as well as how sampling and remix affect creative practice.
                PAYMENT FOR PARTICIPATION
                There is no financial compensation for this study.
                CONFIDENTIALITY
                Any information that is obtained in connection with this study and that can be identified with you will remain confidential and will be disclosed only with your permission or as required by law.
                The only personal information required to participate is a valid email address in order for us to contact you later. This information is stored in a secure password protected database at the media lab. This and any other personal information obtained during the course of the study (such as your name) will be kept confidential. Usernames will be de-identified before publication.
                IDENTIFICATION OF INVESTIGATORS
                If you have any questions or concerns about the research, please feel free to contact
                Yannick Assogba
                20 Ames St.
                E15-391
                Cambridge, MA 02142
                617 253 8874
                yannick@media.mit.edu
                Faculty Sponsor:
                Prof. Judith Donath
                20 Ames St.
                E15-392
                Cambridge, MA 02142
                617-253-5098
                judith@media.mit.edu
                EMERGENCY CARE AND COMPENSATION FOR INJURY
                If you feel you have suffered an injury, which may include emotional trauma, as a result of participating in this study, please contact the person in charge of the study as soon as possible.
                In the event you suffer such an injury, M.I.T. may provide itself, or arrange for the provision of, emergency transport or medical treatment, including emergency treatment and follow-up care, as needed, or reimbursement for such medical services.  M.I.T. does not provide any other form of compensation for injury. In any case, neither the offer to provide medical assistance, nor the actual provision of medical services shall be considered an admission of fault or acceptance of liability. Questions regarding this policy may be directed to MIT’s Insurance Office, (617) 253-2823. Your insurance carrier may be billed for the cost of emergency transport or medical treatment, if such services are determined not to be directly related to your participation in this study.
                RIGHTS OF RESEARCH SUBJECTS
                You are not waiving any legal claims, rights or remedies because of your participation in this research study.  If you feel you have been treated unfairly, or you have questions regarding your rights as a research subject, you may contact the Chairman of the Committee on the Use of Humans as Experimental Subjects, M.I.T., Room E25-143B, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, phone 1-617-253 6787.

I understand the procedures previously described. My questions have been answered to my satisfaction, and I agree to participate in this study. I have been given a copy of this form.

I am over 18 years of age

I have no mental or health problems that would prevent me from participating in this study

I am willing to fill out a questionnaire at the termination of the study, I understand that followup interviews are optional

I am willing to share any code produced during this study under the Creative Commons GNU GPLv2.0 and to share my sketches/projects under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.