CS 5754: Virtual Environments

Announcements & syllabus Schedule Projects Proposal Literature review IRB information List of current projects Presentations Final report Participation Discussions Final Exam

Discussion questions about class projects – Feb. 28 a. Describe your research question(s) in terms of components of immersion, proposed benefit of immersion, application area and/or task type, and metric(s). For example, "Do head tracking and/or stereoscopy improve spatial understanding for complex biological visualizations, as measured by the accuracy of feature counts?" b. Defend your answers to question a. c. How specifically will you address your research question(s) experimentally? Talk about the environment you will build, the tasks you will have users perform, the measures you will use, and the participants you will recruit. How will you implement each of the levels of immersion required in your experiment? How will you gather and analyze the data? d. How is your project addressing the tradeoff between experimental control and ecological validity? In other words, how have you chosen to run the experiment: with as much control as possible, with as much real-world validity as possible, or somewhere in between? e. How do you expect your results to generalize? How will others be able to use your results? What is the expected impact of your work?