<div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues,<div><br></div><div>I've been asked to write up a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the use of my eye tracking lab (2 EyeLink 1000 trackers) for data collection by a colleague. I'm also considering whether to do so with another colleague who has similarly asked to use my lab facilities. </div><div><br></div><div>An important consideration is that these are not typical collaborative research ventures with a colleague (which I've got plenty of experience with). Instead, these are cases in which a researcher on campus has a project that they want to do which requires the use of eye tracking, and they don't have their own eyetracker so would like to use my lab facilities. Of course, I understand that I'm under no obligation to accept such requests. On the other hand, I also understand that, technically, the lab equipment belongs to the university, and thus other university faculty think of it as a potentially shared resource. In the past, I've simply deflected requests that were not from colleagues with whom I was committed to doing a collaborative project under my control. However, in one of these new cases, I'm fine with allowing the use of my lab by the colleague because it will be supervised by one of my graduate students who is being paid as a GRA on the colleague's grant. In the other case, the proposed use of my lab does not involve supervision by one of my students. Importantly, in both cases, the requests are for use of the lab during time periods which would not interfere with normal lab operations (i.e., between semesters, when we typically don't do much data collection).</div><div><br></div><div>I've never done anything like this before, and would be interested to get any suggestions and/or insights from colleagues with more experience with this. </div><div><br></div><div>Some questions I have include: </div><div><br></div><div>1) What is a reasonable rate to charge? </div><div><br></div><div>2) What should be stipulated about colleagues who want to either move my equipment to their lab (e.g., to use with their EEG equipment for their study), or bring their equipment to my lab? This has me a bit worried.</div><div><br></div><div>3) What about differentiating between use that is supervised by my lab members (e.g., grad students), versus not? For example, as noted above, in one case, my colleague has a grant which is paying one of my grad students as a GRA, who will be running the study. In another case, a colleague has their own EEG study set up already, but wants to add eye tracking to it. I don't believe that they have experience with eye tracking, and would either a) need a lot of help (e.g., from one of my grad students) to get it working, or b) they would need to spend a lot of time trying to figure it out, and it could get messy in terms of their needing to work in the lab a lot just to get off the ground (or keep the equipment in their lab for long enough to do so). This latter case is similar to ones that I've simply deflected before, though I'm tempted to be more accommodating this time. </div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div>Les </div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Lester Loschky</div><div><div>Professor</div><div>Associate Director, Cognitive and Neurobiological Approaches to Plasticity Center<br>Department of Psychological Sciences<br>471 Bluemont Hall</div><div><div>1114 Mid-Campus Dr North</div>Kansas State University<br>Manhattan, KS <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica">66506-5302</span> </div></div><div>email: <a href="mailto:loschky@ksu.edu" target="_blank">loschky@ksu.edu</a></div><div>research page: <a href="https://www.k-state.edu/psych/research/loschkylester.html" target="_blank">https://www.k-state.edu/psych/research/loschkylester.html</a></div><div>lab page: <a href="http://www.k-state.edu/psych/vcl/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.k-state.edu/psych/vcl/index.html</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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