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*Many thanks to everyone who helped - Kavita has emailed to say that they had a great response and have completed all three experiments :-)* She is going to put a message on the website to say that it is finished. Best wishes, Liz I raise money for Communication Matters with Everyclick.com Find out how you can help here: http://www.everyclick.com/lizpanton On 21 July 2010 10:48, Liz Panton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Any takers? Please see message from Kavita Thomas below. > > (Apologies if you are on more than one of these lists and feel bombarded!) > > I raise money for Communication Matters with Everyclick.com > Find out how you can help here: http://www.everyclick.com/lizpanton > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: kavita thomas <[log in to unmask]> > Date: 21 July 2010 09:31 > Subject: last push to get a few more participants for 15 min. accessibility > web study > To: [log in to unmask] > > > Dear All, > > Please ignore this mail if you've already participated; and if you haven't, > now's your chance! We just need to get a few more native English speaking > participants to close this study, so we hope you'll give our web experiment > a try! Participants should only take this study once though, so if you've > already taken this 15 minute study, please don't take it again. But if you > pass it on to friends, that'd be great! > > About the study: > > The DiaSpace project at the University of Bremen is running a 15 minute > online web study into how people give route instructions in dialogue. The > goal is that our findings will help us develop more responsive wayfinding > systems so that people who can't manually control their wheelchairs can > interact via dialogue instead. Another application which we're working on > is > about helping elderly people find objects in their home by describing where > they are in an understandable way. So it's all in a good cause! > > Please participate, and just as important, please forward this email on to > your friends! We're really having a hard time getting enough participants > who are native English speakers, as DiaSpace is based in Germany. The only > conditions for participation are that participants be native or very fluent > speakers of English and 18 years old or older, and not visually or > cognitively disabled. > Here's the link to the experiment: > > http://kognition.informatik.uni-bremen.de/diaspace/CR/ > > The experiment only takes 15 minutes, and if you're using Windows Vista, > you'll need to run it on Firefox, as it won't work on Internet Explorer for > Vista. (It works on Internet Explorer for other operating systems than > Vista > though.) > > Thanks very much for your help, and please feel free to send any questions > about this experiment or research to: > Dr Kavita Thomas > [log in to unmask] > the DiaSpace project: > www.diaspace.org > University of Bremen > > ________________End of message________________ > > This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for > Disability Studies at the University of Leeds ( > www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). > Enquiries about list administration should be sent to > [log in to unmask] > > Archives and tools are located at: > www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html > You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page. > >