How Do I Find Participants With a Recruiting Screener?
By: Laura Reinert One of the most important aspects of human factors research is making sure you have the right people in the room interacting with your product. How do we find a representative sample? Participants in your human factors study should represent the intended users of your product so they behave similarly to what you would expect to see in real life. Modern recruitment methods allow for communication with a large variety of people, but how do we know who to include in the study? We use a recruiting screener. What is a recruiting screener? The recruiting screener is a list of questions to ask potential participants to determine if they are representative users of your product. By asking specific questions, you can decide who accurately represents the intended users of your product and exclude people who do not. The screener also creates a record of how qualified people were found, what worked and what did not, and other important information, all of which could be