My Progress Report

1
My Progress Report

• 31 August - 28 September

2
From Last Month

• Revise timetable (2 days) - DONE, but in less
  detail
• Try harder to get the ARI tech reports - DONE
• Carry on reading, with more focus, and add more
  detail to my plan as I go - DONE, but never
  finished
• Start designing the questionnaires measures I
  will need - Sort of done
• Give Shih-min and Brian new project details for
  webpage and vision document - DONE

3
Reading

• Proshansky - Environmental Psychology Man and
  His Physical Setting
• Rovine (twice) - Sketch-Map Variables as
  Predictors of Way-Finding Performance
• Cronbach, Gregory - General testing principles,
  spatial ability tests
• Holahan - Environmental Psychology
• Satalich (thesis) - Navigation and wayfinding in
  virtual reality finding proper tools and cues to
  enhance navigation awareness
• Shiratuddin - Games Engines in Real World Virtual
  Reality Application
• Searched for Spatial Ability tests on web

4
What I learned from my reading

• A lot more about sketch maps - whats good about
  them, whats bad, how to use them, how not to use
  them, some ways to analyse them, supplementary
  methods
• Some ways to measure wayfinding performance
• VR papers not as well written as psych papers
• Ill never finish reading
• try to get good sample, hope leaders in field are
  there
• problem is controversial, need range of opinions

5
By the Way...

• ACM application forms are being processed
• Tried emotive CVE Edwin mentioned
• Continually updating my own what this thesis is
  about and how Im going to achieve it document
• Also updated my own thesis page
• 3rd years are hopeless at networks programming
• UKVRSIG proceedings online at presence-research.or
  g - downloadable as .pdf (198 pages!)

6
A Paper?

• Had sudden realisation major problem in most
  presence research
• p ? q, q DOES NOT mean p!
• Known as the fallacy of assuming the antedant
• Lots of presence research does this - especially
  the behavioural presence people
• maybe worth writing up as a short forum paper for
  Presence?
• Not terribly much to say, but has important
  implications for the validity of current research

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To Do

• Quarterly progress report (tomorrow)
• Presence paper?
• Finish up reading (try to read mornings only,
  effectively two weeks)
• Write out plan for experiments - will also show
  up areas where I need more research (2 days)
• Draw up questionnaire (2 days)
• Speak to CAMA people for map of data
• Work out format for 1st experiment (what to
  compare to, layout, what interactions there will
  be, what is needed)
• Devise tasks for 1st set of groups (two weeks
  together)