 I can talk okay great where do I have to stand okay thanks so much for coming I should mention that I have backup here in case you ask tough questions I can't handle or in case I forget to say something which is highly likely but Roy del Castillo runs XLAB and she does the real work I'm just the nominal head and and Margaret is a student who works in the lab as well and who helps manage day-to-day operations so the XLAB is the Experimental Lab for Behavioral Research it is a facility housed within the Haas School but open to everyone on campus the short summary of what XLAB does is we aim to be useful collecting data from humans so it is primarily used by psychologists and experimental economists to administer surveys that have participants interacting playing games but in addition to in-lab studies we would like to be useful for people running studies in other labs around campus so we're now managing a subject pool which we share with other labs at Haas and in psychology if you're interested in getting participants for your studies and you're ready to pay the money there are fortunately people who like money and we maintain a list of these people they will if you pay the money they will come sign up to your study and participate you don't even have to do it in a lab you can use the names on this list to run the studies online we maintain facilities XMobile is a platform that can maybe useful for collecting data from people on mobile devices if you want to do that you can also push them your own surveys without using XMobile platform we would like to be useful to people collecting data from from humans wherever they are so they're the in-lab facilities if you need help setting up special programs to run in the lab Roy and Margaret can be very useful to you there if you're interested in getting advice and consultation on permission to run your studies with human participants that is you need IRB clearance and you need to apply to committee for the protection of human subjects we can be useful as consultants there too we pay a woman named Suzanne Stone who has a great deal of experience with CPHS and with IRBs and other institutions as well she knows the regulations and you can consult with her in devising your protocol we offer a small grants program that you can apply to for funding for your research we these are small grants but useful for paying participants the going rates in the lab are about $15 an hour in expectation so you can pay varying amounts based on the task and the decisions of participants make or how the games come out we can help pay so that we have pay systems in place if you prefer to pay cash you can bring your own cash and pay subjects there in the lab we can also pay by check we can also pay using virtual visa cards online or Amazon gift certificates there are lots of different different options there the lab as it exists now is a big room with rows of desks and laptop computers at them space for 36 participants to sit the lab will be moving over the winter break to new space in well old space in a new position new location for us in the Hearst gym that is closer to the action in the middle of campus so easier for participants to get to and again we'll have space for 36 computers as well as some smaller rooms that could be used for group interaction what else should I say on the X lab website you can get more information about what's been done in the lab so papers by people researchers who collect their data in the lab you can read about the small grants program and how to apply for it you can see the lab calendar and find information about reserving the lab the website that we use for keeping track of participants if it's of interest is it linked to from this website so sona systems you can go sign up as a participant and see what it looks like you can get a researcher account when you're ready to put that to use and Roy would be the person to help with that you can also just ask us to schedule your sessions and we can help do that I think that about covers it sure