Hi Elizabeth, I can imagine most of the folks who are using/administrating OpenSims are already busy with their own projects. I can imagine that an OpenSim Provider could be interested in supporting a project like yours and provide a already installed sim, which then just need to be duplicated for more studies.
Maybe ask the guys at http://www.simhost.com/ or any other OpenSim hoster ..? Marcus On 4/29/10, Elizabeth Lowry <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > _______________________________________________ Opensim-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users
