Hi all, I tried telling the individuals who answered my first email back in March about this, but I haven't gotten any responses yet.
I'd really like to compare the results I'm getting from my study with someone else's - I've posted instructions at http://hokiegrid.cs.vt.edu/index.php?&page=smodul&id=34&btn=33&subbtn=34 and I'd really like to talk to some of you about reproducing my experiment. Please? It's for science! Thank you, Elizabeth Lowry On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Elizabeth Lowry <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > My name is Elizabeth Lowry and I'm a Master's Student in the Computer > Science program at Virginia Tech. > > As part of my thesis, I'm going to be running a user study using OpenSim. > I'll be packaging my setup, including the data collection tools, in an OAR, > and I'm hoping some of you will be willing to reproduce my experiment using > that OAR and let me compare your results to mine. > > The idea of the experiment is to measure the effect of levels of spatial > presentation in a virtual environment on that environment's effectiveness. > I'll be presenting two lessons -- one on the photoelectric effect, a topic > with a level of inherent spatial content, and one on a yet-to-be determined > topic that isn't inherently spatial, like music or logic -- at three levels > of spatial presentation -- as a slide show given in the virtual world, as a > set of posters arranged in space (with the slides from the > previously-mentioned slideshow as the posters), and as a set of full-on 3D > exhibits (presenting the same information as the slides) taking advantage of > a virtual environment's ability to present 3D objects. Subjects will visit > exactly one of the topic/level-of-spatial-presentation combinations for a > set period of time and their learning will be measured by comparing their > scores on quizzes before and after visiting. > > The question I'm hoping to answer is: How much effort is really worth it in > the construction of a virtual learning environment? And does this level of > effort vary between topics that are inherently spatial and ones that aren't? > If the full-3D versions of the learning environments in the study lead to > the greatest improvements in quiz scores, it'll indicate that the greater > amount of effort required to build such environments pays off in better > learning. > > Obviously, more work would need to be done in the future, whatever the > results of this study -- but to get solid results on this study, I'd like > your help. > > Is anyone on this list in a position to run a user study in OpenSim with 30 > or more participants by mid to late April? > > Thank you, > Elizabeth Lowry >
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