Challenges in Teaching Yourself Machine Learning |
1. Study Details and Consent
This survey will help us understand the strategies people use to self-learn Machine Learning. We want to know how individuals overcome challenges and make progress towards their learning goals, what influences their learning choices, and to what extent they are able to strategize this experience.
This survey is part of a research being done in the SFU IXlab (Interactive Experiences Lab). Rimika Chaudhury (PhD student) is the principal investigator of this research, supervised by Dr. Parmit Chilana.
The survey is hosted on SFU’s version of SurveyMonkey, which is subject to the US Patriot Act and US Cloud act. This survey takes approximately 15 minutes to complete. Please note that this is an anonymous and voluntary survey. You may omit answering any question in this survey with no consequence. You may exit from the survey anytime by closing the browser tab or window.
This survey is part of a research being done in the SFU IXlab (Interactive Experiences Lab). Rimika Chaudhury (PhD student) is the principal investigator of this research, supervised by Dr. Parmit Chilana.
The survey is hosted on SFU’s version of SurveyMonkey, which is subject to the US Patriot Act and US Cloud act. This survey takes approximately 15 minutes to complete. Please note that this is an anonymous and voluntary survey. You may omit answering any question in this survey with no consequence. You may exit from the survey anytime by closing the browser tab or window.
There is a $50 gift card (Amazon or VISA) that will be raffled among all of the participants of this survey. If you want to participate in the raffle, please provide us with your email ID at the end of this survey. There you may also indicate if you would like to participate in a follow-up interview about this topic (your email ID will not linked to your responses). There will be no consequence if you decide not to be contacted for the interview.
By participating in this survey, you are giving the research team consent to use the collected survey data for this research study and future ethically approved studies related to this research and to store it on secure SFU Vault servers. If you are an SFU student, your decision on whether to participate in the study will not influence your grades in any way.
The results of this study will be reported in a potential publication at a conference or in a journal. Please note that any names of participants will not appear in any report or publication resulting from this study. However, we may choose extracts of anonymized quotations and choose to use them as supporting evidence for our study. We will not be contacting individual participants when the results are published. But, once the study results are published, you will be able to download the relevant publications from our research group's websites (https://ixlab.cs.sfu.ca/)).
If you have any questions about this research feel free to contact the principal investigator, Rimika Chaudhury (rimika_chaudhury@sfu.ca), Parmit Chilana (pchilana@sfu.ca). Please note, that once you click the submit button, the answers you made cannot be withdrawn from the study.
Concerns or Complaints:
If you have any concerns or complaints about your rights as a research participant and/or your experiences while participating in this study, you may contact Dr. Jeffrey Toward, Director, Office of Research Ethics at jtoward@sfu.ca or 778-782-6593.
The results of this study will be reported in a potential publication at a conference or in a journal. Please note that any names of participants will not appear in any report or publication resulting from this study. However, we may choose extracts of anonymized quotations and choose to use them as supporting evidence for our study. We will not be contacting individual participants when the results are published. But, once the study results are published, you will be able to download the relevant publications from our research group's websites (https://ixlab.cs.sfu.ca/)).
If you have any questions about this research feel free to contact the principal investigator, Rimika Chaudhury (rimika_chaudhury@sfu.ca), Parmit Chilana (pchilana@sfu.ca). Please note, that once you click the submit button, the answers you made cannot be withdrawn from the study.
Concerns or Complaints:
If you have any concerns or complaints about your rights as a research participant and/or your experiences while participating in this study, you may contact Dr. Jeffrey Toward, Director, Office of Research Ethics at jtoward@sfu.ca or 778-782-6593.