PARTICIPANT INFORMATIONUser-Centred Survey in the User Centred Design course in RMITChief Investigators:Dr. Flora Salim, Computer Science & IT, School of Science, RMIT University;email flora.salim@rmit.edu.au Other Investigators:Head Tutor of User Centred Design course:William Lim; email william.lim@rmit.edu.au Tutor of User Centred Design tutorial/lab:Renee McMillan-TolleyGroup members:Luke Carnuccio, Thomas Franz, Flynn Swainston-Calcutt, David SarkiesYou are invited to participate in research being conducted by students of User Centred Design course in the School of Computer Science and IT at RMIT University. Please read this information carefully and be confident that you understand its contents before deciding whether to participate.Participation is purely voluntary. Participation in this study does not impact you directly or your assessment in any courses being conducted at RMIT University. If you have any questions about the project, please ask any one of the investigators listed above, by emailing them.Who is involved in this research? Why is it being conducted?This research is conducted as part of User Centred Design course. The first assignment of the course is User-centred survey. In this assignment, students needs to perform an analysis and a short survey on a deployed IT based system with users.Why have you been approached?You have been approached because you are a current user of Skype for Mobile.If I agree to participate, what will I be required to do?If you agree, you will be required to answer a short survey. Consent will be implied by the return or completion of an anonymous survey.What are the possible risks and disadvantages?There are no direct risks of physical or emotional harm.What are the benefits associated with participation?There will be no direct benefits associated.What will happen to the information I provide?Your response will be stored, anonymously, with other responses.The results from the analysis of the data will be not be published.It will make a part of the first assignment of this group enrolled for submission to User-Centred Design course. The submission will be stored safely in RMIT secure server that hosts the Blackboard system.What are my rights as a participant?As a participant in this research you have the rights to:withdraw from participation at any time.have any unprocessed data withdrawn and destroyed provided it can be reliably identified.have any questions answered at any time.Whom should I contact if I have any questions?Please contact any of the investigators listed at the beginning of this participant information.Security of the websiteUsers should be aware that the World Wide Web is an insecure public network that gives rise to the potential risk that a user’s transactions are being viewed, intercepted or modified by third parties or that data which the user downloads may contain computer viruses or other defects.Security of the dataThis project will use an external site to create, collect and analyse data collected in a survey format. The site we are using is Google Forms If you agree to participate in this survey, the responses you provide to the survey will be stored on a host server that is used by Google Forms. No personal information will be collected in the survey so none will be stored as data.Yours sincerelyLuke Carnuccio, Thomas Franz, Flynn Swainston-Calcutt, David SarkiesCourse Coordinator:Dr. Flora Salim, Computer Science & IT, School of Science, RMIT University;email flora.salim@rmit.edu.au Course Tutors:Head Tutor of User Centred Design course:William Lim; email william.lim@rmit.edu.au Tutor of User Centred Design tutorial/lab:Renee McMillan-Tolley