{"id":186,"date":"2014-02-19T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T01:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/designinvr-14\/?p=186"},"modified":"2014-02-20T13:45:25","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T19:45:25","slug":"reading-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/designinvr-14\/2014\/02\/19\/reading-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For class 2\/24\/14<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Post Comments by<\/strong>\u00a011:59 pm on 2\/23\/14<\/p>\n<h1 lang=\"en\">Virtual Superheroes: Using Superpowers in Virtual Reality to Encourage Prosocial Behavior<\/h1>\n<p>Robin S. Rosenberg, Shawnee L. Baughman, and Jeremy N. Bailenson<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3559425\/\">http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3559425\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a press release that describes the project for a more general audience<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/26752-superheroes-boost-helpful-behavior.html\">http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/26752-superheroes-boost-helpful-behavior.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Astrojumper: Motivating Exercise with an Immersive Virtual Reality Exergame<\/strong><br \/>\nSamantha Finkelstein*, Andrea Nickel, Zachary Lipps, Tiffany Barnes, Zachary Wartell and Evan A. Suma<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/people.ict.usc.edu\/~suma\/papers\/finkelstein-presence2011.pdf\">http:\/\/people.ict.usc.edu\/~suma\/papers\/finkelstein-presence2011.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related media:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4ZZmommFnBE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nLink:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4ZZmommFnBE\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4ZZmommFnBE\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0slLnGhcEC4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nLink: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0slLnGhcEC4\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0slLnGhcEC4\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion 1 (Pick 3)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What do you think of the overall setup of the experiment? \u00a0Do you agree with the approach?<\/li>\n<li>What do you think of the metrics used in the study? \u00a0Do you think these provide an adequate measure of prosocial behavior?<\/li>\n<li>If you were going to change something in the experiment what would it be and why?<\/li>\n<li>What other\u00a0prosocial behaviors would you like to test? \u00a0Would you design your experiment in the same way?<\/li>\n<li>You may find a term or topic that you are unfamiliar with.\u00a0 If you would like to, do a little research on the subject (wikipedia would be a good place to start). 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