In 1998, fascinated with the potential for the web to serve as a data collection platform, I wondered what sources of error may crop up with this new technology. Not surprisingly, we noticed early on that if participants did not finish a web-based survey in one...
“This role blends my experience in higher education and my passion for research,” says Josh. SoundRocket recently welcomed Josh Patterson, Ph.D., to its Higher Education research team. “The higher education research space has always been a core business at...
So, you’ve developed a genetic test that you’d like to sell directly to the public in the U.S.—from a regulatory perspective, what do you need to know? To start, some genetic tests require U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) review before being marketed...
This is Part 2 of a two-part series; to begin at the beginning, check out How to Prepare and Conduct Live Televideo Interviews - Part 1. Over the past year, our team at SoundRocket has been conducting ‘pandemic-friendly’ Live Televideo Interviews (LTIs) on Zoom. After...
I remember it well - we both walked into the interview room, the research participant and myself, and immediately noticed we had the same shoes. We instantly bonded over being ‘shoe twins’, praising each other's taste in footwear, and setting a positive tone for the...
COVID-19 has impacted countless facets of our lives. For me, the start of the pandemic coincided with my first job hunt out of college. At the time, if you asked me, I wasn’t even considering the remote job market – that was for computer programmers and startups with...
This post was written in collaboration with Jesus Arrue Why develop live televideo interview methods? In simpler times, pre-pandemic, we conducted user comprehension and other cognitive interview studies through in-person interviews. We would meet with research...
Today we are bombarded with online terms of service, contracts, and privacy policies. Whether we are signing up for Spotify or online fitness classes, clauses of click-through legalese lead to the inevitable checkbox – I have read the details and I agree. ...but it...
Over-the-counter drugs and direct-to-consumer genetic tests need to stand alone: here’s how the FDA ensures label comprehension. At SoundRocket, we have spent some time talking about the #SoundScience that is associated with FDA user comprehension studies. These...