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

[Ideia Boa]

Hi Elizabeth

We can build a region within our WorldSimTerra Grid for volunteers who 
can use it for your scientific work.
Therefore all volunteers who are interested in reproducing your tests 
can do so in this region
If there is interest in this region, please send a reply to the list and 
the call for volunteers.

Regards
Ideia Boa
www.worldsimterra.com

On 29-04-2010 9:15, 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 
> <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 
> <mailto: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
>
>
>
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