sudo-discuss

sudo-discuss@sudoroom.org

6 participants
7410 discussions

Join Our Research Project: Recruiting Facilitators for Embodied Virtual Reality Learning Experience

by Jake

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 15:09:10 -0800 From: Jose Oyola Cortes <joyola(a)ucdavis.edu> To: info(a)sudoroom.org Cc: Lee Martin <leemartin(a)ucdavis.edu> Subject: [sudo-info] Join Our Research Project: Recruiting Facilitators for Embodied Virtual Reality Learning Experience Greetings, I hope this email finds you well. I am reaching out to you because of your organization's expertise and experience in facilitating hands-on making and tinkering experiences and your commitment to supporting underrepresented and marginalized communities. We are embarking on an exciting research project aimed at developing embodied pedagogical agents capable of facilitating maker tasks in three-dimensional virtual reality making spaces. Our goal is to create an immersive learning experience for students who may not have access to traditional educational resources. To achieve this goal, we are assembling a team of expert facilitators and youth participants to interact together in an embodied virtual reality (VR) platform that our team is building. This platform, equipped with VR headsets and motion capture technology, will record verbal and motion data of facilitators and young people as they work simulated electronic assembly tasks. We will recruit our youth participants (13- and 14-year-olds) from historically under-represented and marginalized racial, ethnic, and socio-economic groups in the greater Sacramento area. Facilitator participation will involve 1 or 2 in-person visits to UC Davis, where you will don a motion capture suit and VR goggles, and then lead about five one-on-one sessions with a 13- or 14-year-old learner. Each session will last 15-20 minutes, and you would complete about five sessions in one visit day. We would also ask you to be available for one additional interview (via zoom) to collect feedback on your experience and our developing framework. Your expertise will be invaluable in helping us collect a rich and diverse dataset that will drive our research forward. The data we collect will be used to (a) understand how experienced facilitators guide learners through making experiences, which will aid us and others to better educators to facilitate maker experiences, and (b) help build a prototype virtual facilitator which will be controlled in "Wizard of Oz" fashion by a human facilitator “behind the curtain.” By participating in our project, you will have the opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge research -- your insights and expertise will be instrumental in shaping the future of this exciting set of technologies and pedagogies. We are looking for participants for dates between March 11 and April 30 of this year. If you or anybody in your organization is interested in being part of this research project, please reply to this email with your availability for a brief introductory call. We would love to discuss the project in more detail and answer any questions you may have. Thank you for considering this opportunity to join our team. We look forward to potentially working together to advance the field of virtual reality-based education. Warm regards, José E. Oyola Cortés PhD Student & Graduate Student Researcher School of Education University of California, Davis joyola(a)ucdavis.edu Dr. Lee Martin Professor School of Education University of California, Davis leemartin(a)ucdavis.edu

1 year, 6 months

Proposal: A better Omni Commons front door bell / buzzer

by Peter Mui

Proposal: At this Tuesday's Hardware and SoftWEAR Hack Night: can we put some energy into improving the front door bell / buzzer / video system so we can make Omni Commons more welcoming? A first step: move the existing bell further back in the lobby so it can sound louder in Sudoroom and in the media lab? -Peter

1 year, 6 months

Pi.BerkeleyLUG: Meeting tomorrow at Sudoroom (18.02.2024)

by Peter Mui

Hi Sudoers: Sudoer Thomas Lopes hosts the Berkeley Linux Users Group Raspberry Pi interest group (Pi.BerkeleyLUG) this Sunday (tomorrow) at Sudoroom: === At SudoRoom from 11am till about 2pm this Sunday. Call or txt me for building access if you need. 510. 984. 2455. I've got a new high resolution camera module that old like to try. 54MP. (Can't find 4k at decent price) And a pcie multiplier which I'd like to try on the Pi 5 to see if I can get fast Ethernet and storage at the same time. Other project will be fixing a Lenovo laptop. This has the WiFi removed and if you plug in a non Lenovo card it will refuse to boot. There is a WiFi whitelist in the BIOS. So I would dump the BIOS and parse it out with UEFI tools in Linux and apply a patch then write it back. === Come out tomorrow and support Thomas! Cheers, -Peter

1 year, 6 months

Laser Cutter

by Z Silver Zahn

Hello Sudo, I am teaching an 8 sewing cohort and would love to do a laser cutting demo March 13th 7pm - 7:30pm, It's on a Wednesday and I was wondering if this is possible?

1 year, 7 months

weekly sudoroom meeting tonight at 7PM

by Jake

Sudoroom meeting tonight at 7PM, we're having weekly meetings since a lot of fundamental issues to Omni and Sudoroom are being discussed every week. We have to talk about these issues so that we can be represented at the Delegates meetings that happen every thursday. Show up! Please show up, there will be important discussions which will have an effect on Sudoroom's survival as well as what Sudoroom stands for going forward. Most of us meet in person, some join the meeting remotely through our Jitsi video link at this address: https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles -jake

1 year, 7 months

Drawn at SudoRoom last night

by Romy Ilano

romy ilano shared a photo with you from the Flickr app! Check it out: https://flic.kr/p/2py1yHH Sent from my iPhone

1 year, 7 months

February 18th - Palisades snowboard crew

by Romy Ilano

Hey folks I'm taking a break from the digital world and I'm going to be at Palisades Snowboarding. Are there any nerds here? would enjoy a quick meetup on the slopes! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 7 months

Omni maker fair feb 25

by Paige P

Omnis having another maker faire this month! Angela and I tabled last month and it was fun and we got some new people into SR. Who wants to help out tabling this time? Also can everyone share this around, more venders needed! (currently 17 signed up, goal is 30). feb event https://www.instagram.com/p/C3Grs-wPlwo/ signup for vending or performing here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc0xR9box9vzAQioa0mi_9EILwsZ8MRgTx… other omni stuff https://linktr.ee/OMNI.commons

1 year, 7 months

Fixit Clinic on NPR

by Peter Mui

Fixit Clinic is red hot! Last week’s KQED piece on Fixit Clinic was featured nationally on today’s NPR Marketplace (Friday Feb 9) https://www.marketplace.org/ It starts at 21:51 into the ½-hour There’s also KPIX coverage on Jan 25: https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/project-earth-fixit-clinic-volunt… And KALW coverage from last week: https://www.kalw.org/2024-01-29/fixit-clinics-turn-consumers-into-fixers -Peter

1 year, 7 months

artillery sidewinder 3d printer nozzle

by Jake

as you may have noticed, the artillery sidewinder 3d printer nozzle assembly is removed. It was clogged and we tried to unclog it but it just clogged up again, and it was loose in the motor part of the extruder. we took it out (me and Ray? new person at sudo) and tried to heat it up and adjust the pieces but it just got ruined and the metal thing broke off. I ordered a new one from eBay and it arrived today and we can put it back together and get that printer going again. The kit came with a bunch of nozzles from 0.3mm to 1.2mm so that's interesting. If anyone has experience assembling and installing an extruder kit like this please respond, i've never done it before. https://www.ebay.com/itm/385701967616 -jake

1 year, 7 months

Jump to page:

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

sudo-discuss