3 Steps to Use Prolific with Perceptional

Introduction

We’ve heard from our users: finding participants for their user research is a major pain. So we've partnered with Prolific to provide you with access to hundreds of thousands of vetted participants that can complete your AI-moderated user interviews in minutes. Perceptional is now listed as a Prolific Marketplace Partner - you can learn more about that at this link.

Prolific is an acclaimed online research platform that specializes in the recruitment and management of participants for various types of research. By connecting you with a diverse pool of participants, Prolific facilitates fast, reliable, and high-quality data collection. This integration with Perceptional can significantly enhance your user research efforts by seamlessly providing you with a vetted pool of user research participants for your Perceptional AI-moderated user interviews. 

This article will provide you with an overview of how to use Perceptional to create an interview that can be completed by participants recruited from Prolific.

How to Use Prolific with Perceptional

Setting Up Your Study in Prolific:

Go to Prolific and follow the process to create an account. Follow the steps to create a ‘New study’ which will allow you to provide a study title, description, screening questions, participant cost, etc. 

1. Under Study Details: Add the following statement to the bottom of your study description: “Note: This survey platform requires email entry. Please feel free to enter a dummy email address. We will ask you to provide your Prolific ID in the first question of the survey.”
2. Under Data Collection: some text
   1. Select ‘External study link’ and add your Perceptional interview URL to the field
   2. For ‘Recording Prolific IDs’, select ‘I’ll add a question in my study’
   3. For ‘Completion codes’, select ‘Manually review’some text
      1. Copy the ‘Completion Code’ provided (you’ll need that in a moment)

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Setting Up Your Interview in Perceptional:

Go to Perceptional and follow the process to log in. Follow the steps to create a ‘New interview’.

3. Under Dynamic Questions: some text
   1. Add the following as Question 1: “Welcome to this AI-moderated user interview. Before we start, please provide your unique Prolific ID for our records.”
   2. Add the following statement to your last questions: “After you answer this question, copy and paste this completion code into Prolific: [Insert Completion Code from Prolific]”

AI-moderated interviews in action

That’s all that’s needed! Now you can publish the Prolific study and wait for responses to come in. Depending on your audience and screening questions, this could take as little as a few minutes or a few hours.

After the interviews

Once you have received the set number of responses to your Perceptional interview from Prolific participants, you can manually disburse payments through Prolific. You do this by ensuring that participants who are marked as ‘Completed’ in Prolific also provide ‘Complete’ responses in Perceptional. Make sure you follow up on this promptly to maintain participant satisfaction.

Fast, vetted participant recruitment

While integrating Prolific with Perceptional involves some manual steps, the benefits are substantial. This process allows you to rapidly collect and analyze data, giving you actionable insights quicker than traditional methods. Using Prolific with Perceptional transforms how product teams conduct user research. By streamlining participant recruitment through Prolific and interview facilitation through Perceptional, you can have results in less than 24 hours and derive actionable insights for your research questions.

Want to see a case study? Check out our case study with Susgrainable who used Prolific to conduct market research into consumer shopping habits. 

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