April 2019 Meeting Minutes

• Brief Overview about the purpose of a Center of Excellence
• Discussed the Mission and Vision of the HCD CoE, see our Confluence page here https://qnetconfluence.cms.gov/display/HCD. We plan to add new content periodically, please let us know if you have any ideas or comments. Share your Ideas!

Group Discussion: Recruiting research Participants.

The following questions were asked:

• What has worked for your team t hat you recommend for others
• How have you recruited volunteers to participate in research activities?
• What ongoing challenges do you face?
  What ongoing challenges do you face?
• What role could a CoE play?

• Discussion around building relationships to recruit participants and the challenges of recruiting within the government space.
• The importance of making sure that we also recruit participants with disabilities. It has a significant impact for Section 508 which is critical when developing applications and services in the Government space.
• Question was asked about compensation & incentives for people to participate in Federal Government space.
  • We plan to do research this topic and publish our findings. In the meantime, here is an article you can read on the topic. https://digital.gov/2016/02/10/paying-incentives-for-federal-user-research/
  • Nicole suggested that we can ask for research compensation in the contract language from the beginning setting you up for success in recruiting participants.