You are being asked to participate in an interview study about your experience participating in community-based research as part of the Winter 2026 Computer Science course on Aging & Technology taught by Dr. Celine Latulipe.

The objective of this study is to investigate the value of these community-based research projects for the students who participated. We want to understand the value of these projects for the graduate students who completed the course, and to identify any challenges they may have experienced or ways to improve or augment this experiential learning. We also want to understand the experience of the community facilitator who assisted. Our hope is to share our findings with the wider CS community, so that other CS faculty can conduct similar community-based research projects with graduate students as part of course work. Brenda Stoesz from the Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning will be conducting interviews on UM-licensed Zoom, to gather your thoughts and reflections on these course projects.

Participation in this study is voluntary and if you agree to participate, you can withdraw your participation at any time. You do not have to answer any questions you do not want to without any penalty or prejudice. There is no penalty for withdrawing consent. If you would like to withdraw, you will be asked if you wish for your data to be removed from the study, and if so, your data will be deleted immediately. You can also withdraw from the study after the interview by emailing brenda.stoesz@umanitoba.ca and request we withdraw your information. Audio files will be transcribed and anonymized within 2 weeks of the interview, after this time, withdrawing participation will not be possible. All additional study data (transcripts, notes, consent forms) will be deleted from the secure MS Teams project within three years of completing the study (12/29).

The interview will take place on UM-licensed Zoom. The interview will take place at a time that is convenient to you and should last between 30 minutes. Brenda will then review, correct, and anonymize the Zoom-generated transcription of the interview (within 2 weeks of the interview taking place). Please note that Dr. Celine Latulipe will not have any access to identifying data. Brenda will be conducting the interviews alone and manually transcribing and anonymizing the audio files for subsequent analysis. It is possible that direct quotes will be included in the final report. No names or identifiers will accompany direct quotes. As a thank-you for your time, you will be sent $20 via e-transfer.

Risks & Benefits

After completing these investigations, we will write a report on our findings that will help our department, and potentially others. We hope to discover the value in offering such community-based research experiences as part of CS graduate course work and to determine how to improve such projects going forward to create a more valuable experience for our students and for participating community members.

There are no direct benefits to you from participating. Indirect benefits to you are the opportunity to reflect on the research study you took part in and to be a voice in shaping it for future students and community members.

Risks to participating in this study are no greater than in everyday life.

Dissemination

We will submit the research as an experience report to the CACE (Canadian Association of Computing Educators) conference or to a similar conference.

A summary report of the research will be available on this page once the study and analysis is complete. You can also opt-in to receiving a copy of the study summary sent to you by email.

Approval

This research has been approved by the University of Manitoba Research Ethics Board. If you have any concerns or complaints about this project you may contact any of the above-named persons or the Human Ethics Coordinator at 204-474-7122 or humanethics@umanitoba.ca.

If you are interested have questions or need more information, please contact:

Brenda Stoesz (brenda.stoesz@umanitoba.ca)