The Effect of Interface Domain on Decision Making Experience

Graduate Mentor: Ross Bohner

Interns: Bella Manoim, Richard Garcia Lebron, Andrew Newman

Decision processes are difficult to capture in the natural environment. Nearly all analyses of high risk decision making are gathered through retroactive interviews are subjected to bias, story telling effects, and memory loss. To address this problem we created a virtual environment to simulate the high risk scenarios, where an emergency responder's decision making processes can be safely monitored in real-time while providing a naturalistic setting for the responders to interact with the environment.

We are particularly interested in firefighters' decision making processes and have built a realistic environment that is simulating various emergency fire situations for this purpose. This fire simulation environment was created to run in ISU's C6 CAVE to utilize the high processing power and visual fidelity that the C6 provide. However, another option for emulating high risk scenarios is through augmented reality where a virtual stimulus is overlaid on top of the physical environment. Instead of modeling a building and simulating a fire on that building in a VR CAVE, it might be possible to establish an augmented reality to overlay fire and our virtual decision making capturing tool over actual buildings.

We are interested in translating aspects of our decision making process capturing tool software to an augmented reality system and evaluate its effectiveness, advantages and future applications in the realm of studying decision processes.

Decision Matrix Team Testing Photos

Timeline:

• June 26th: methods are due:
  • AR system running:
  • Decision Matrix Running:
  • Experiment Protocol established:
• July 10th: Results due
• July 17th: Poster due
• July 31st: final Paper due

Reading List:

Decision Making literature:

• Introduction to Decision Making
• EFFORT_AND_ACCURACY_IN_CHOICE.pdf

Augmented Reality literature:

• AR Toolkit Documentation

• Z800 Quick Start Guide

• Z800 User Guide

• Testbed_Evaluation_of_Virtual_Environment_Interaction_Techniques.pdf: Paper on VR evaluation techniques

• Tullis_usability_planning.pdf: An introductory usability paper

• Toward_the_Merging_of_Real_and_Virtual_Spaces.pdf: A brief article on VR and AR

• user_studies.pdf: A chapter from the 3DUI class at CHI 2009 on mixing physical object with virtual

• physical_environment.pdf: A chapter from the 3DUI class at CHI 2009 on mixing physical object with virtual

papers of augmented reality taken from this years chi conference

• Designable_Visual_Markers.pdf

• Going_My_Way_A_User-aware_Route_Planner.pdf

• Inferring_Player_Engagement_in_a_Pervasive_Experience.pdf

• Like_Bees_Around_the_Hive_A_Comparative_Study_of_a_Mobile_Augmented_Reality_Map.pdf

• Simulated_Augmented_Reality_Windshield_Display_as_a_Cognitive_Mapping_Aid_for_Elder_Driver_Navigation.pdf

• Toward_a_Unified_Theory_of_the_Multitasking_Continuum_From_Concurrent_Performance_to_Task_Switching_Interruption_and_Resumption.pdf

• Active_Stereo_Integrating_Disparity,_Vergence,_Focus,_Aperture,_and_Calibration_for_Surface_Estimation.pdf: Active_Stereo_Integrating_Disparity,_Vergence,_Focus,_Aperture,_and_Calibration_for_Surface_Estimation.pdf

Opportunistic Programming

• web foraging integral to programming

Software Packages

Parts of Our Paper

Problem Area paragraph

Research Question and Lit Review

Methods

Results

The link below should always be to the most recent draft of the paper.

Full Paper (Updated 7.31.09 at 9:45 am)

Mid-project presentation

Poster

Poster ppt

Timeline

Extra

Survey.doc

Tasks.doc

Methods.doc

Poster_HCI_Final.pdf

Poster_HCI_Final.pptx

Presentation_for_Nir.pptx

Problem_Area_paragraph.docx

PWSE_abstract.doc

Research_Question_lit_review.doc

schedule.doc

Sequence_of_Events_in_Experiment.doc

Sequence_of_Events_in_Experiment.doc

Tasks.doc

final_paper_Format.doc

PvracP_results.xls

Sheet_1.xls

Sheet_1_RESULTS.xls

Sheet_2.xls

02_-_REU-DecisionMaking_IRB-_June_29_NK_RB.doc

03_-_Recruitment_script_-_June_29_NK_RB.docx

04_-_REU_Decision_Consent_NK_RB_-_June_29-1.doc

06_-_Buying_a_car_Scenario_-_June_29-1.docx

AR_instructions_user.doc

consent.doc

Procedure_Script.doc

Recruitment_script.docx

MidProjectPresentation.pptx

DecisionMatrixf.avi

DecisionMatrix.avi

paperpencil_Matrix_A.docx

paperpencil_Matrix_B.docx

paperpencil_Matrix_C.docx

paperpencil_Matrix_D.docx

• research_paper_tables.xls: research_paper_tables.xls