Limited Objective Experiments

Scenario: H1N1 Outbreak

• scale of the outbreak: few cases to global pandemic?
• location (if not global)? in/near military base (US)
• what level of expertise will the subjects have? e.g. CDC will be very knowledgable
• who will produce a credible initial scenario and provide injects? Contacts? Adapt existing scenarios.
• scenario: bioterrorism (hint in initial info)
• some resources at http://openvce.net/h1n1

Aims:

• what are we evaluating in the different experiments? (collaboration protocol for expt 1 and expt 2, virtual collaboration environment, OpenVCE web site)
• what are we going to measure during the experiment, if anything?
• specific questions to be answered?

Experiment 1

Dates: Nov. 16-20, 2009

Features:

• 2 teams, 5-7 people each
• subjects should attend VIWS-3?
• subjects should be physically distributed (to avoid non-virtual interaction)
• use "Brain" to pull in more people - what if these new people do not have SL presence / not seen OpenVCE before?
• injects: how can we tell they are stalling?

Experiment 2

Dates: Jan. 25-29, 2010

Features:

• 2 teams, 5-7 people each (as for expt 1) - same people/teams?
• note: first half of collaboration protocol is largely about introducing the team to each other
• continuation of expt 1? (challenge!)

Experiment 3 (Final)

Dates: Feb. 22-26, 2010

Features:

• 2 teams, 7+ people each - same people/teams?