Collision perception experiment: 5-10 minute survey

Dear forum members,

I’m a PhD student at the VHTLab, Utrecht University in The Netherlands. We’re investigating collisions between virtual characters (crowd simulation). To understand more about how much detail people can actually see in virtual characters, we have set up a small experiment.

We would like you to participate in our survey at http://survey.stuvel.eu/. It should take only 5-10 minutes of your time, and would help us a great deal. There is something in it for you too: we’ll raffle off an Apple iPod Shuffle among those who have completed the survey.

In case this sounds familiar, you may have already participated in an earlier experiment. This new experiment is a follow-up, and uses video rather than static images.

The survey will be open until November 3rd.

And of course, all videos were made with Blender!

Thanks in advance,
Sybren A. Stüvel

Virtual Human Technology lab: http://vhtlab.nl/
Utrecht University: http://www.cs.uu.nl/

Would be fascinating to see if 3D artists are any more sensitive to noticing subtle collisions and details verses other people.

It would indeed! Unfortunately we don’t ask about people’s professions or hobbies, so I wouldn’t be able to tell.

I tried to give the survey a blast…got the first animation…but my lap top [eeee] froze on the second question.

Thanks for giving it a try kbot! Sorry for freezing up your laptop, I hope it recovers well!

Seems like a foolish thing not to do, (asking what hobbies the test taker has) considering you are recruiting people from a 3d modeling forum for your survey. I know details of social,psych experiments are seldom fully disclosed and often the occasional misrepresentation is in what is disclosed to the subjects under study. So that may well be part of it.

As an aside it seems that the framerate on this survey lowers near the points of collision, I did a second check using a screen capture and did a frame by frame, And I found the most bluring near those points. Not the most accurate test I admit but it may be something that colors your results. Or it may well be part of what you are studying.

You can be as paranoid as you want about our intentions :wink:
Once we’ve published our results, you’ll be able to download the Blend file and see how we generated our test data.

Paranoid seems to be an emotionally loaded word, A well picked one that both attacks the statement it responds to and makes the implication that the person who said the statement is of questionable mental state, Although finishing it with the cheeky smile face is priceless. And yet at the same time not something I would expect from a professional and educated man.
But I did use the word foolish so that seems fair. Although I do thank you for your response. It provoked quite a few questions.