NIST Seeks Feedback on Feedback Forms: Meta Much?
Published Date: 4/15/2025
Notice
Summary
NIST wants your feedback on how they collect usability data to make their research easier to understand and more helpful. They’re asking for public comments by June 13, 2025, to keep improving without making people fill out too many forms. This helps NIST stay smart and efficient while respecting your time and privacy.
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 2 costs, 0 mixed.
You may be asked to join NIST usability studies
NIST plans voluntary usability and utility data collections that could ask up to 150,000 respondents to participate. Typical response times are 15 minutes for a questionnaire or up to 2 hours for an empirical study, with an estimated 100,000 total annual burden hours and an estimated total annual cost to the public of $0.
Participation is voluntary, not mandatory
NIST will limit inquiries under this generic clearance to strictly voluntary opinions or responses and will not conduct mandatory, required, or regulated individual data collections under this clearance; respondent obligation is explicitly stated as voluntary.
Public comments (and personal info) may be disclosed
Comments you submit in response to this notice are a matter of public record and may include your address, phone number, email, or other personal identifying information; NIST says it cannot guarantee it will be able to withhold personal identifying information from public review and asks that you not submit confidential business information or otherwise sensitive information.
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