PARTICIPANT INFORMATION SHEET

Study Title:
Detecting Image Changes in Everyday Scenes

Investigator:
Yuqing Xu & Dr Miaolei Jia

This study aims to examine how individuals detect visual changes in realistic scenes, such as shopfronts or product displays. The study aims to explore how different visual elements influence attention and the speed at which changes are noticed.

After providing your consent, you will be asked to complete a brief online task. You will view pairs of alternating images that depict everyday commercial environments. In each pair, a small change will occur, and you will be asked to click on the location where you observe the difference. The task consists of approximately 10 to 20 trials and takes around 1 to 4 minutes to complete in total.

Your participation is completely voluntary. You can withdraw at any time, and for any reason, simply by closing your browser.

No identifiable data will be collected from you as part of this study. This means that once your responses have been submitted to the research team, it will not be possible to withdraw this data as your individual responses cannot be identified.

Data will be securely stored on University of Warwick computers and will be processed only for the purpose of scientific analysis. Access to the data will be restricted to Yuqing Xu and Dr Miaolei Jia. Summaries may be presented at conferences and included in scientific publications. Data will be reviewed after a period of 10 years, in line with the University of Warwick data retention policy.

Please refer to the University of Warwick Research Privacy Notice which is available here: University of Warwick Research Privacy Notice or by contacting the Legal and Compliance Team at GDPR@warwick.ac.uk.

This study has been reviewed and given favourable opinion by the University of Warwick’s Humanities and Social Science Research Ethics Committee (HSSREC).

If you require further information, please contact Yuqing Xu via Yuqing.Xu.1@wbs.ac.uk.

Who should I contact if I wish to make a complaint?
Any complaint should be addressed to the person below, who is a senior University of Warwick official entirely independent of this study:

Head of Research Governance
Research & Impact Services
University House
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 8UW
Email: researchgovernance@warwick.ac.uk
Tel: 024 765 75733

If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal data, you can contact our Data Protection Officer, Information and Data Director who will investigate the matter: DPO@warwick.ac.uk.

If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are processing your personal data in a way that is not lawful you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

Thank you for taking the time to read this Participant Information Leaflet.

If you click this button, the study will exit and you will not be able to participate.

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Welcome! Before we begin the main task, we’d like to provide a brief example to help you understand what to expect.
Please follow the on-screen instructions at your own pace.

This is the first image in the example pair. Something in the image will change.
Please pay attention to the details. Click Next to continue.

This is the second image in the example pair. Something in the image has changed.
Try to spot the change compared to the previous image. Click Next to continue.

The highlighted area below shows where the change occurred.
In the main task, you will be asked to click on the changed area in the second image of each pair. Click Next to continue.

In the task, two images alternate until you click. Please respond quickly.
If no click is made after 30 alternations, that trial won’t be recorded. Start when you are ready.

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