project done
I submitted two papers yesterday, which kind of wraps up “phase one” of my US visit. During the past week I’ve had some more participants come and do the experiment, finished up the quantitative analysis, and did the writing. Nic and I are pretty happy with the results and think there are some interesting outcomes – hopefully other people will like it too. For more detail see our blog entry.
There are a few things I’ll try to do with the rest of my time here. I am interviewing some expert SL builders who were not part of the trials to see if our results accord with their experiences. I’ll talk to a few people about voice too, speaking of which I think I have a new take on voice in SL and how to write about it.
I’ll probably continue to live in Palo Alto as I basically like it here, though I could go live in Frisco and commute for a while. My current share house, which has been very good, stops at the end of September. I have a few visitors coming by in late October.