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Online experimenter : an evaluation of experiments conducted under local and remote conditions Zhang, Ying
Abstract
When conducting experiments, researchers traditionally work in a lab setting where they have access to specialized equipment and can meet their subjects faceto- face. This is definitely the way that traditional experiments in behavioral research are carried out. However, with the growing need for recruiting experiment participants from different social and cultural backgrounds, it may be difficult to design a traditional lab experiment for the research. Moreover, highly specialized lab equipment cannot always be easily accessed, and the costs of commuting present financial constraints. We explored the necessity of co presence in experimentation by evaluating a facility to determine whether experiments conducted in a non co-present context would achieve the same scientific outcomes as the ones conducted in a traditional lab context. The facility that we used was designed to allow researchers’ access to a sophisticated lab for the purpose of experimentation in educational research. There are two research goals explored in this thesis: (1) to evaluate the relative efficacies of running an experiment under co-present and non co-present conditions, and (2) to assess whether the participants’ experience differs in the experimental process between the co-present and non co-present condition.
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Online experimenter : an evaluation of experiments conducted under local and remote conditions
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University of British Columbia
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2008
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When conducting experiments, researchers traditionally work in a lab setting
where they have access to specialized equipment and can meet their subjects faceto-
face. This is definitely the way that traditional experiments in behavioral
research are carried out. However, with the growing need for recruiting
experiment participants from different social and cultural backgrounds, it may be
difficult to design a traditional lab experiment for the research. Moreover, highly
specialized lab equipment cannot always be easily accessed, and the costs of
commuting present financial constraints. We explored the necessity of co
presence in experimentation by evaluating a facility to determine whether
experiments conducted in a non co-present context would achieve the same
scientific outcomes as the ones conducted in a traditional lab context. The facility
that we used was designed to allow researchers’ access to a sophisticated lab for
the purpose of experimentation in educational research. There are two research
goals explored in this thesis: (1) to evaluate the relative efficacies of running an
experiment under co-present and non co-present conditions, and (2) to assess
whether the participants’ experience differs in the experimental process between
the co-present and non co-present condition.
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eng
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2009-03-05
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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10.14288/1.0051242
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University of British Columbia
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2008-11
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Graduate
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