[Opensim-users] Looking for help reproducing a user study in OpenSim

[Jeroen van Veen]

i posted a request to the pilot group, if they're interested in participating. 
Will the results of the research be public?

Jeroen

On Thursday 29 April 2010 09:15:26 Elizabeth Lowry 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 <emlowry at vt.edu> 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