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@flushleft(Dear Study Participant:)

We are conducting a study of how people customize their application
software.  The study will help us to understand what people actually
do when customizing, in order to design more effective customization
mechanisms.

As a voluntary participant in the study, we will interview you about
the way you customize your software and ask you to provide us with
dated listings of your customization files.  We will also ask you to
show us examples, of your choice, of your customization files.  We
will not collect any data automatically.

The data we will collect will be strictly confidential.  We will
report only summary statistics from groups of users and anonymous
examples.  Your name or other identifying information will not be 
included in any of our reports unless you give us explicit
permission to do so.  we will not share individual information 
with your supervisor or co-workers.  However, the following 
individuals may see the raw data.

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Thomas W. Malone, Professor, Sloan School of Management
Wanda Orlikowski, Professor, Sloan School of Management
Wendy Mackay, Graduate Student, Sloan School of Management, Digital
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Your cooperation is appreciated, but your participation in 
this study is purely voluntary.  You may choose not to 
answer any questions, to stop participating at any time, or not to 
participate at all without prejudice or penalty.

If you have any questions about this study, please feel free
to ask us at any time during or after the study.

Because your participation is voluntary, we are required by MIT
to document, in writing, your consent to participate in this 
study.  Signing this letter does not waive any legal rights 
you may have.

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Name:___________________________________________________


Title:____________________________________________________


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