Study invitation to help improve the Browser Extension Ecosystem

[dteviot]

@gamebeaker @Kiradien

I got this email. Seems to be legit. https://cispa.de/en/people/shubham.agarwal
You may be interested in participating.

We are researchers from Saarland University & CISPA, Saarbrucken, Germany. I am a Computer Science PhD student and my research focuses on identifying issues related to application development and maintenance on the Web and providing appropriate countermeasures, wherever possible. In our current research project, we investigate the developers’ perspective and approach towards browser extension development. Our goal is to identify, highlight and help resolve any issues or roadblocks that developers may face during extension development and publishing.

We recently came across 1 of your browser extension (WebToEpub For Baka-Tsuki) hosted on the Mozilla Add-ons Store. As part of our study, we would like to learn more about your overall experiences when developing and maintaining browser extensions, in general.

The study consist of two parts: We first invite interested participants to fill up a short-screening questionnaire (approximately 2 – 3 minutes). We will, then, shortlist from the set of interested candidates and invite them for direct interview. The direct interview will be conducted in English and take approximately 90 – 120 minutes and we will compensate your participation in this study with an Amazon Voucher worth of 50 Euro (or its equivalent) once the interview is completed.

We would, thus, ask you or any of your colleagues associated with the design, development or maintenance of your extensions to participate in our study, by filling the screening questionnaire here at: https://research.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bpIo6iuelDfbogu.

Please write back to us in case of any further questions, issues or information regarding the study or the interview.

Best Regards

Shubham Agarwal | Doctoral Researcher
Saarland University & CISPA | Saarbrücken, DE - 66123
Mail: [email protected], [email protected]

[gamebeaker]

I would be interested i asked [email protected] if multiple people from the same project can participate,

[gamebeaker]

I got a response:

Thanks so much for showing interest in our study. We really appreciate your willingness to participate and help us out with the research project here.

To answer your question: Yes, more than one people can join for the interview. No issues there. However, we would only be able to compensate for just one participant for our study due to ethical reasons.

Please let me know if that works for you. Looking forward to hearing about your extension development experience soon.

Best regards

Shubham Agarwal | Doctoral Researcher
Saarland University & CISPA | Saarbrücken, DE - 66123
Mail: [email protected] [email protected]

[dteviot]

@gamebeaker
It's fine with me if you take the compensation. Under NZ tax law I can't accept it anyway, without way more paperwork than it's worth to me.

[dteviot]

FYI. That's the reason I don't accept donations.

[gamebeaker]

It's fine with me if you take the compensation.

@dteviot thanks i am going to answer the questions.

FYI. That's the reason I don't accept donations.

I can understand that.