News Article Reading Study

Sign up and other info for participants

How to sign up

To participate, book an appointment on our Google calendar or email the study coordinator at dento019@umn.edu. You can also email dento019@umn.edu if you want to book an appointment time outside the ones offered on Google calendar.

Location: Shepherd Labs, Room 207 on the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Campus.

Eligibility: Adult (18 or older), English speaking, with normal or corrected-to-normal vision.

Time Commitment: no longer than 60 minutes

Payment: $15 via Amazon gift card

About the study: We are interested in evaluating how humans process and understand different types of written text. IRB: STUDY00015556.

Study procedure: Participants will read a series of excerpts from news articles while their eye movements are tracked. Participants will rate how easy the articles are to read and how well-written the articles are, as well as complete a few free-response questions. In addition to the ratings and free-response questions, other data collected during this experiment is gaze data, i.e., the focal coordinates of the pupil on the display screen, as well as pupil diameter.

Contact info PI: Prof Dongyeop Kang. Study Coordinator: Karin de Langis, dento019@umn.edu