Tittle:
Not your mother's tourism.
Experiment Scenario:
Prepare for your trip by seeing your destination virtually, learning about language and cultural matters, and exploring sustainable travel through recycling.
SL Location:
Roles:
Recorders, question askers, tourists (see list bellow)
Recorders -- Record the virtual trip using screen shots and sound and video recording if possible.
Question Askers -- Follow tour group and ask one or two specific questions about culture, art, architecture, or language pertaining to the locations visited.
Questions to Learn:
- What time is it
- Good morning
- How are you
- Where is the bathroom
- How much does this cost
- Do you have vegan/vegetarian food
- I'm lost, where is the nearest embassy
Things to learn to say
- (some form of slang such as)
- Cool
- Awesome
- (informal) hello
- (informal) goodbye
- Which way to the bar
Tourist -- Follow tour group, and think about if you would like to visit this place in the real world and how the virtual trip influenced your decision.
Role Assignments:
Question askers for each group --
1 Colleen
2 Danny Pan
3 Jose Ramirez
4 Laura
Groups --
1 Grant, Chris, James (recorder)
2 Josh, Karen, Xiaomin (recorder)
3 Ed, Tara, Kim (recorder)
4 Stephen, Zachary, Brandon (recorder)
Assets Provided:
Translator found at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Spike/26/198/621/
Participant Preparation:
Download translator, think about any concerns you have regarding foreign travel.
Production plan:
We will be taking participants to existing areas in Second Life and leading virtual tours. As such we will not be designing most of the in-world materials, but will instead focus on the user interaction, and how best to guide a tour group through virtual China Town, Museum, etc. We will leverage existing materials to explore cultural, language, and sustainability issues in Second Life.
At the end:
1. Go to Sand Box for survey.
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