User Activity Study Volunteer Instructions
Step 1: Create a temporary Google account
Create the new temporary Google account you will use for the study. Please do not use your name or any identifying information in the name of the account. You must use this account for nothing but the study.
To create your new account, navigate as follows:
Home Screen

Accounts

→

→

App Tray

Add Account

→

→

Settings

Select “Google”

and follow prompts

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To confirm success, tap “Google”

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Verify your account is in the list

Step 2: Download the User Activity app
Tap on the link provided by SOTG to find and download the User Activity app in the
Google Play Store. It will appear in your app tray like all other apps.
Click the link in the
SOTG app

Sign-in to your new account

→

Read and tap to join then tap to download

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Install from
Google Play

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Find User Activity in your app tray

Step 3: Set up the app
Have your participant code from SOTG on hand and open the app to set it up. You may also be prompted to update Google Play Services. Follow the instructions that it asks.
Open the app and link your account

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Enter your participant code

Step 4: Complete the 16 tasks
Complete the first three tasks to enroll yourself in the app. You are paid for these tasks, which are used to validate all of your others. is important that you complete these
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tasks very carefully and read the instructions for each task.
Failing to do so will mean you fail the tasks and do not receive payment. Please complete them in a well-lit place.
Remember that this data is being used for research, and that will be seen by it researchers, not just analyzed by computer programs are responsible for what you
. You
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film or record. At the bottom of this document, you can see the instructions for all of the tasks.
Image tasks will have you take a series of burst photos of what the task asks for. You need to make sure your face is visible in each photo otherwise the app won’t accept it.
Each task will ask for five presses of the “Take Picture” button. Between presses, the app with take a burst photo. Wait for it to finish before pressing the “Take Picture” button again.

Press “Begin”

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Read and press
“Take Picture”

Complete. Press
“Finish Task.”

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Verification step

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Picture-taking progress 4

Audio tasks work very similar to image tasks. You can preview your recording or redo it before submitting.
Read and press
“Start Recording”

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Recording progress

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Complete. Press
“Finish Task”

After your enrollment tasks are completed, you are free to complete the remaining tasks in any order. Tasks you have already completed are marked with a green checkmark both inside and outside of the task. You will only be paid for completing each task once.
In the upper right of the app is a button with three dots. You can press this button to review the study’s documents, particularly the consent form and these instructions.
Tasks can be done in any order

Green checkmark if already completed

Review documents

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Some tasks will you need to take pictures or record audio from other devices. Sharing files to these devices is easy. Images are shared as .jpg files and audio is shared as .wav.

Press “Share File”

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Select “Gmail” or other method

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Send and open on new device

Audio example

Please note that .wav files will not open on iPhones or iPads.

Experiencing issues?
If your pictures and recordings do not match your face and voice, tasks will fail the validation step and need to be repeated. You will not be paid for a task until it has passed verification. Make sure you are using a clear picture of yourself with your face filling the screen, and make sure you are using an audio recording of your own voice. 6

Validation failure

If you experience a problem in a task or just want to quit a task in-progress, you can press your phone’s “Back” button to bring up the exit dialogue.
Press
back button to exit ongoing task

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If the app has repeated problems (e.g. the camera or microphone fails), power cycle the device and restart the app and task. Please contact support@surveysonthego.net to make us aware of the problem.
Hold power button to power-cycle

Step 5: Finishing the study
When you finish all 16 tasks, congratulations! You have completed the study. Wait
24
hours then you may delete the app from your phone. You may also close your new
, and temporary Google account.
Hold icon and drag up to uninstall


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Confirm deletion


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Software Updates
Like any other app, the data collection software may occasionally need to be updated.
You will always be notified when an update changes the way data is collected. All updates are mandatory for participating in the study. These updates will happen the same way as all other Android app updates.
If you experience any difficulties with an update, whether before or after installation, please feel free to contact support@surveysonthego.net any questions. with Bugs and Troubleshooting
Please contact support@surveysonthego.net if you any troubleshooting support need for the app or encounter any software bugs you would like to report. Please do not contact Google as they will be unable to assist directly.

Complete Task Instructions
1. Initial Front Facing - Indoor
While inside in a well-lit place, take 5 burst photos of your face. Remember to have your face fill the entire screen when taking the picture. These images may be used to verify data from future tasks.
2. Initial Front Facing - Outdoor
While outside during the daytime, take 5 burst photos of your face. Remember to have your face fill the entire screen when taking the picture. These images may be used to verify data from future tasks.
3. Social Media Photo - Indoor
While inside, find your individual photo on Facebook or another social media platform
(either on a phone, tablet, or PC) and take 5 burst photos of it. Remember to have your face fill the entire screen when taking the picture.
4. Social Media Photo - Outdoor
While outside during the daytime, find your individual photo on Facebook or another social media platform (either on a phone, tablet, or PC) and take 5 burst photos of it.
Remember to have your face fill the entire screen when taking the picture.
5. Printed Color Photo - Indoor

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While inside, find a recent physical printed photo of you (e.g. in a photo album) and take
5 burst photos of it. Remember to have your face fill the entire screen when taking the picture. 6. Printed Color Photo - Outdoor
Head outside while the sun is up and take a recent physical printed photo of you with you (e.g. in a photo album). Take 5 burst photos of yourself from it. Remember to have your face fill the entire screen when taking the picture.
7. Selfie - Indoor
While inside, take five burst selfies.
8. Selfie - Outdoor
While outside during the daytime, take five burst selfies.
9. Computer Photo - Indoor
Open a photo of yourself on your computer screen. You can send your picture to your computer by tapping the “Share File” button below and using email or another method.
While inside, take 5 burst photos of the picture on your computer screen. Remember to have your face fill the entire screen when taking the picture.
10. Phone Photo - Indoor
Open a photo of yourself on a different phone. You can send your picture to your computer by tapping the “Share File” button below and using email or another method.
While inside, take 5 burst photos of the picture on the other phone. Remember to have your face fill the entire screen when taking the picture.
11. Phone Photo - Outdoor
Open a photo of yourself on a different phone. You can send your picture to that phone by tapping the “Share File” button below and using email or another method. While outside during the daytime, take 5 burst photos of the picture on the other phone.
Remember to have your face fill the entire screen when taking the picture.
12. Speech - Fixed
Press 'Start Recording' and then read the following text aloud. It is okay if you don’t finish: A towel, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon.

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13. Phone Audio - Outdoor Fixed
Send your fixed speech recording to a different phone by tapping the “Share File” button below and using email or another method. While outside during the daytime, press 'Start Recording' on this phone and begin playing the audio on the other phone.
Try to reduce environmental sounds while the phone is playing the recorded audio.
14. Phone Audio - Indoor Fixed
Send your fixed speech recording to a different phone by tapping the “Share File” button below and using email or another method. While inside, press 'Start Recording' on this phone and begin playing the audio on the other phone. Try to reduce environmental sounds while the phone is playing the recorded audio.
15. Computer Audio - Fixed
Send your fixed speech recording to a computer by tapping the “Share File” button below and using email or another method. Press 'Start Recording' on this phone and begin playing the audio on the computer. Try to reduce environmental sounds while the computer is playing the recorded audio.
16. Car Audio
Connect your phone to your car's audio system using an aux cable or bluetooth. Press
'Start Recording' on this phone and wait while your fixed speech is played over your car audio. There is no need to share your audio to another device for this task. Try to reduce environmental sounds while the phone is playing the recorded audio.

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