My Progress Report

31 August - 28 September

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

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

What I learned from my reading

• A lot more about sketch maps - what’s good about them, what’s 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

• I’ll never finish reading

– try to get good sample, hope leaders in field are there

– problem is: controversial, need range of opinions

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 I’m going to achieve it” document

• Also updated my own thesis page

• 3rd years are hopeless at networks programming

• UKVRSIG proceedings online at presence-research.org - downloadable as .pdf (198 pages!)

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

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)