Progress Report

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Progress Report

• 23 November 8 February

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From Last Month

• Compile list of papers not available in SA that
  Dave can try to get for me in US did that, and
  read one of them
• Consolidate notes from reading not done yet
• Build measures and VEs for the actual experiments
  (long term plan) - ?
• Maybe do another pilot of the new SA test done,
  fixed some errors, waiting for final data

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Reading

• McNamara and Hardy Subjective Hierarchies in
  Spatial Memory
• Ryan Immersion vs. Interactivity Virtual
  Reality and Literary Theory
• Tversky - Distortions in Memory for Maps
• Lackner and DiZio Spatial Orientation as a
  Component of PresenceInsights Gained From
  non-terrestrial environments
• Colle Reid The Room Effect Metric Spatial
  Knowledge of Local and Separated Regions

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Reading

• Waller, Hunt and Knapp The transfer of spatial
  knowledge in virtual environment training
• Witmer Kline Judging Perceived and Traversed
  Distance in Virtual Environments
• Chance, Gaunet, Beall, Loomis Locomotion mode
  affects the updating of objects encountered
  duirng travel
• Ruddle, Payne Jones Navigating Large-Scale
  Desktop Virtual Buildings Effects of
  Orientation Aids and Familiarity
• Loomis, Golledge Klatzky Navigation system
  for the blind auditory display modes and
  guidance
• Lampton, Knerr Goldberg Virtual Environment
  Performance Battery (VEPAB)

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Other Stuff

• Stuff from before Christmas
• Written up summary of thesis, making the
  underlying ideas more explicit
• Webified this new summary, and updated web page
  in general
• Updated bibtex file with new readings
• Wrote 4th Quarter Progress Report
• Designed hons project (must still write it up)

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Schedule

• Made list of tasks to be done to complete thesis

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Study Design

• Designed my studies

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To Do

• Type up hons project proposal (by 9 Feb)
• Organise type up readings w.r.t. topics, rather
  than author
• Make formal plan for experiments
• How to measure stuff
• Create dummy tasks
• How to get at cognitive map
• Decide on 2 equivalent knowledge bases for
  experiment
• Design alternates for comparison for experiments
• Get measures ready
• Design VE for experiments (if time)