Consent Form

Survey Description



Do you have experience with a programming language and an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) like Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans, or Visual Studio? If so, we would appreciate your feedback. Your responses to the following questions will be used for a research project that aims to augment IDEs like Eclipse with new, interactive ways to help professional developers transform their code.



This survey will take about 20 minutes and all responses will be completely anonymous. At the end of the survey, you will have the option to submit your e-mail address to be notified when our tool is available for further user testing. If you choose to provide us with your e-mail address, you will be presented with a separate form to ensure that your survey responses will not be linked to your e-mail address.



Privacy



We will store the results of this survey in secure storage spaces. We may share the results of this study with others in our scholarly articles. We will ensure that the shared data does not include any information that makes it possible to identify you.



Voluntary Nature of the Survey



Your participation in this survey is completely voluntary. You can opt out at any time without any penalty by just closing the web page of the survey in your browser. You may skip the optional questions without any negative consequences. We value your participation but we are unable to compensate you for filling out this survey. If you participate in this survey, you won't experience any risks beyond that of everyday life. However, your participation will contribute to the research on programming environments.



Contact Information



This research is being conducted by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. If you have any questions about this survey, you may contact Prof. Ralph Johnson or Mohsen Vakilian:

Ralph Johnson, Research Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, e-mail: rjohnson@illinois.edu, phone: +1 217-244-0093

Mohsen Vakilian, PhD Student, Computer Science Department, e-mail: mvakili2@illinois.edu, phone: +1 217-244-5841

If you have any questions about your rights as a participant in this research, please contact the University of Illinois Institutional Review Board at +1 217-333-2670 (you may call collect) or via email at irb@illinois.edu.By continuing this survey, you acknowledge the following:1. I am 18 years old and familiar with an IDE.2. I have read and understand the above consent form and voluntarily agree to participate in this study.You may print a copy of this consent form for you records.