The last weeks I’ve been working on designing and researching my third experiment. The next step will be to introduce animation and to study its effects. I was curious to see if there had already been research into the effect of different types of animation on stress reduction. Rather to my surprise I couldn’t find […]
Author Archives: Danielle
Virtual View: colour pallet
I’ve written a little program to create a colour pallet for my landscapes. At the moment I’m studying articles on animation. Again they lead me to Japanese and Chinese drawing and block printing. I wasn’t planning to go there but there is such a strong link between my views on nature and eastern religious and […]
Information literacy
While designing experiment number three I bumped into the complexity of doing proper research. I realised I lacked some information literacy skills. Luckily the Open University (where I study psychology) offers free master classes. Last week one started on information literacy for researchers. This has been very helpful for me to get a grip on […]
Virtual View: results experiment 2
The analysis of the second experiment has taken a long time. At first there appeared to be no significant results on any of the variables, except on the heart-rate during the cognitive stress task. So I consulted different people with a degree and research experience and asked for help. I’ve really learned a lot from […]
Virtual View: conducting experiment two
Our ideal for the execution of the second experiment was to have 60 participants of 40 years and older. There would be two labs where the experiment would be held in alternating rooms over 3 days. The rooms would be in a quite part of the school as we had quite a lot of disturbance […]
Virtual View: design of experiment two
After conducting and analysing the first experiment some points of improvement emerged. The differences in heart-rate between the sets weren’t significant so we want to create more extremes in heart-rate. One group will get a heart-rate enhancing trigger and there will be a control group that won’t. There was evidence of interaction with age for […]
Virtual View: results experiment one
In this post I want to give an overview of the results of the first and I will spare you the heavy statistic speak. So don’t expect a scientific article. The data is there and I may write a proper article one day but it isn’t appropriate for this blog. Together with Hein from the […]
Quantified Self Conference Europe 2014
For the third time I’ve visited the Quantified Self Europe conference in Amsterdam. I had been looking forward to it but was also a bit nervous because I was asked to take part in a panel discussion on Sunday morning. I felt very honoured of course to have been asked to talk about my Reversed […]
Virtual View: conducting the first experiment
Now that the research goal is clear, the stimuli are collected and the methods are clear and integrated in the EventIDE experiment it was time to look for participants. We needed at least 30 participants equally divided between men and women. Avans Hogeschool has thousands of students and staff so we didn’t expect that to […]
Virtual View: research methods
How does one research the influence of landscape and sound on a human? Fortunately a lot of research has gone into finding out how people react to visual landscape stimuli. Most articles I’ve read made use of static pictures, some used video. As pictures can be found in abundance on the web and are easily […]