The collaborative nature of q research is a far cry from the approaches taken by those who demonstrated that avenues were needed to protect others from them. As ridiculous as it is, if the study described below were to be conducted at Eastern Michigan University, it would have to be submitted to the Human Subjects Review Committee. You need to check with your institution. In general, everything that uses people for data collection should be reviewed by someone. Whether or not it has to go to the full board varies from school to school.
Some colleges have a specific rule about what can be reviewed at a lower level.
Otherwise, it has to be approved by the campus-wide board. Even going to the full board isn't that big of a deal, especially at a small school that isn't completely research-focused. In fact, you probably know some of the people on it. I serve on mine, and I think it's kind of fun to see what kind of research people around campus are doing. We hardly ever disapprove things, but we often make sure that people are getting appropriate consent.