Human Research Ethics

Whenever you do any type of study involving people or their data: you need human research ethics!

You have all: watched the HREC videos & read the risk planning tool & checklist.

Risk

It is important to clarify the risk to the human participants

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<aside> 📝 What are the possible risks of:

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Overall, the TU Delft HREC considers:

Informed consent

The key function of the Informed Consent (IC) process:

• You (the responsible researcher) come to an agreement with your participants about
  • what they will do for your research and
  • what you will do, both legally and ethically, to ensure their physical, emotional and reputational security.

It is key that they know exactly what – and particularly what potential risks – they are agreeing to, and that this is clear in your agreement.

• Include:
  • Opening statement or participant information including:
    • purpose of the research,
    • what participants will do,
    • what kinds of risks – including of identification – are involved
    • what steps you will be taking to mitigate against those risks.

In general, good practice determines that IC forms should be granular, providing separate consent points as separate tick boxes.

Usability

Simply put, this is how easy something is to use.

System usability Scale is one of the most well-known systems to assess usability. We establish a “Quick and dirty” scale of X items. We are the items out of 4 points, by using questions like: