[4eyes] Fw: participating in an Android smart-phone study

[ben adams]

Hey four eyes lab,

Drew's a PhD student in Geography and he's running a study using Android phones
to figure out people's "cognitive maps" of their environment.  He needs
volunteers, so if you've got an android phone please consider helping him out
(his email is drew at geog.ucsb.edu).  See below for more info.

Cheers,
Ben

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Subject: participating in an Android smart-phone study
From: Drew Dara-Abrams <drew at geog.ucsb.edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 01:33:21 -0700

Dear friends and colleagues,

Am I remembering correctly that you have an Android smart-phone? If so,
perhaps you'd like to participate in the third and final study that will be
a part of my dissertation. Here's what the study involves:
- 7 days of running an Android app that I wrote called Cognitive Surveyor
- during this week, when you visit landmarks of personal relevance (home,
office, regular grocery store, other locations of your choosing) you use the
Cognitive Surveyor app to record your visit and estimate the directions and
distances from your current location to other landmarks you've previously
visited
- on Day #1, it will take 15 - 20 minutes to complete two quick
questionnaires, read through the instructions, and install and try the app
- on Day #7, there will be another quick questionnaire and the chance to
explore a "cognitive map" of all your results from the week using a snappy
Web interface, also of my own creation

In exchange for their time, participants will receive a $30 Amazon gift
certificate--and of course my appreciation for helping me along toward the
end of my dissertation research!

If you're interested in participating, let me know. The start date is at
your convenience (but I am aiming to complete all of the data collection by
the end of March). Also, feel free to forward along this invitation to
friends, family, or colleagues who carry an Android smart-phone and might be
interested in participating.

Thanks and best,
Drew

--
Drew Dara-Abrams
in the Department of Geography
at the University of California, Santa Barbara
on-line at http://drew.dara-abrams.com/

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