Hi Laura,
Thank you for your inquiry and your interest in FindingFive! We really appreciate it. Here are my answers to your questions, ordered in increasing complexity
:
Cost
As a nonprofit project, FindingFive is free to use for most researchers. One of our fundamental principles is all "grammar features", which determine what types of studies you can create on FindingFive, will always be free to every researcher. We have premium memberships that one can sign up for on this page: https://www.findingfive.com/membership/. Premium membership offers researchers some advantages in scheduling and managing their studies, especially for big labs and prolific researchers.
Facebook-like Study Setup
This depends on how much you'd want it to look like Facebook or other social network websites. If posting a photoshopped screenshot of Facebook is acceptable, you can do that with FindingFive today. We support the use of image stimuli (https://help.findingfive.com/api/stimuli.html#image) and you can easily upload whatever images you'd like to use in your study.
If you are thinking of an elaborate setup, where the website actually operates like a social network (a fake one, of course), then it might require some significant effort. We as a platform may not have the time and resources to develop such a feature. Sorry!
Text-to-speech and Speech-to-text
You mentioned that you'd want participants to hear what they have typed in a computer voice (text-to-speech), and do voice-typing (speech-to-text). These two particular features are not available right now, but they sound like perfect candidates for feature additions to our audio recording response (https://help.findingfive.com/api/responses.html#audio). We'd be happy to work on these features - again, for free, so that all of our researcher community can use it for the future.
Participants re-recording themselves
This is already supported by our current audio response, as detailed on this page (https://help.findingfive.com/api/responses.html#audio).
We are very excited for you to use FindingFive to run your study, and will provide all the support that we can. At the same time, please understand that:
All researchers on FindingFive must be affiliated with an academic or research institution that has an IRB for subject protection purposes. Please make sure that either you, Emily, or Judit can demonstrate such affiliations and obtain IRB-approved consent forms prior to running your study.
Any questions please let us know!
Thank you for your inquiry and your interest in FindingFive! We really appreciate it. Here are my answers to your questions, ordered in increasing complexity
:Cost
As a nonprofit project, FindingFive is free to use for most researchers. One of our fundamental principles is all "grammar features", which determine what types of studies you can create on FindingFive, will always be free to every researcher. We have premium memberships that one can sign up for on this page: https://www.findingfive.com/membership/. Premium membership offers researchers some advantages in scheduling and managing their studies, especially for big labs and prolific researchers.
Facebook-like Study Setup
This depends on how much you'd want it to look like Facebook or other social network websites. If posting a photoshopped screenshot of Facebook is acceptable, you can do that with FindingFive today. We support the use of image stimuli (https://help.findingfive.com/api/stimuli.html#image) and you can easily upload whatever images you'd like to use in your study.
If you are thinking of an elaborate setup, where the website actually operates like a social network (a fake one, of course), then it might require some significant effort. We as a platform may not have the time and resources to develop such a feature. Sorry!
Text-to-speech and Speech-to-text
You mentioned that you'd want participants to hear what they have typed in a computer voice (text-to-speech), and do voice-typing (speech-to-text). These two particular features are not available right now, but they sound like perfect candidates for feature additions to our audio recording response (https://help.findingfive.com/api/responses.html#audio). We'd be happy to work on these features - again, for free, so that all of our researcher community can use it for the future.
Participants re-recording themselves
This is already supported by our current audio response, as detailed on this page (https://help.findingfive.com/api/responses.html#audio).
We are very excited for you to use FindingFive to run your study, and will provide all the support that we can. At the same time, please understand that:
All researchers on FindingFive must be affiliated with an academic or research institution that has an IRB for subject protection purposes. Please make sure that either you, Emily, or Judit can demonstrate such affiliations and obtain IRB-approved consent forms prior to running your study.
Any questions please let us know!