Laura: I would echo Stuart, encouraging you to take a look at the experiments listed at http://psych.hanover.edu/APS/exponnet.html, and http://www.socialpsychology.org/expts.htm. Feel free to take a look at my current online study / consent form (also listed on these sites), at www.yorku.ca/sbiggs. cheers, Steve -- Stephen Biggs, MA Ph.D. Candidate, Clinical Psychology Psychology Dept., York University 4700 Keele St., Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3 www.yorku.ca/sbiggs Vox: (416) 736-5115 Fax: (416) 736-5814

Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 16:41:09 -0500 From: Laura Gurak <gurakl@umn.edu> To: <air-l@aoir.org> Subject: [Air-l] online consent forms Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org

I am part of a study here that will involve using the Web to recruit subjects and then "sign" an online consent form. We don't want to make people print and mail/fax the form. We want to do everything online with an eye of course on confidentiality and other traditional human subjects concerns.

Can anyone recommend some good examples of online consent forms? Or some articles on the subject?

Thanks, Laura Gurak

---------------- Laura J. Gurak, Ph.D. Associate Professor Rhetoric Department, University of Minnesota 1994 Buford Ave., St. Paul, MN 55108 v 612-624-3773 also--Director, Internet Studies Center -- www.isc.umn.edu Faculty Fellow, Law School gurakL@tc.umn.edu www.rhetoric.umn.edu/Faculty/gurak.html

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Message: 8 Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:04:56 -0500 From: Stuart Offenbach <stuartio@purdue.edu> To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] online consent forms Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org

Laura,

There are few standards for electronic consents, or for verifying such consents. I suggest you look at some experiments at the following sites where you can get some ideas from what others have done.

The following site is sponsored by the American Psychological Association: http://psych.hanover.edu/APS/exponnet.html

This next site is sponsored by the Social Psychology Network: http://www.socialpsychology.org/expts.htm

Laura Gurak wrote: