Group 6b
Srisak, Kunka, Murray, Han
11/13/18
We continued to work on our project. The only document we have left to complete is SH13, and we are planning to work on it during our orchestra concert.
We finished SH14 yesterday:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zpNZojQ8_eCcVFNEVRRBOD1TmhL2Sxn6I3ym6lkDXcY/edit?usp=drive_web&ouid=111748286226999280011
We have found two studies so far, and we started the summarizing on both. Our group has great progress and is efficient in and we have confidence that we will finish everything on time tonight.
11/15/18
Today we established more specifics about our actual experiment. After a lot of deliberation (and playing some weird music), we decided that our experiment will be asking the participant some questions about their multitasking habits in their daily lives, then testing their ability to do two tasks at once. We will have them listen to music that has been altered while completing a simple multiplication worksheet. We will be able to see the accuracy of both activities. Our control group will be doing the worksheet without music.
We also started considering what materials we need for our project. Since it is testing a participant with worksheets, we only needed simple supplies that can be found in our backpacks or at home. Gathering materials will probably be very low cost, so we are not worried about a budget. We started all the worksheets and are preparing for the rough draft. Teamwork and communication is pretty strong, with an even distribution of labor. :)
11/16/18
Today during class we finished both worksheets that were due today, SH 16 and SH17. We also finished SH19 but we didn't have to turn it in. After finalizing details of our experiment, we also assigned who is bringing what materials. I turned in the worksheets, and we are starting our rough draft that is due on Sunday. We also fixed our SH13 because the format was wrong and we didn't properly cite some sources. You can check back with the same links from before to see the better version.
11/19/18
We brought in a big, white tri-fold for the poster for our booth. We are planning the layout of the tri-fold on the document, and so far we know what title (officially) we want and what studies we will put on it (the ones from our rough draft). We realized we need huge fonts for the title, so we are experimenting with font sizes.
Details of our experiment is finalized, we decided to change a couple things. We decided that our original experiment is too hard for participants to do, so we will simply test how well they perform without music (control) and with music (dependent variable).
11/20/18
Day before Thanksgiving break!!
We are planning to take the board home to work on it, but it will be difficult since none of us have classes in north after zero hour.
We continued to work on font sizes and color, we decided to include some multitasking related pictures to fill up the empty spaces.
During class, some people worked on the handout, and some people worked on the poster. We finished the handout and we are improving on the design of the poster.
11/26/18
We printed out all the fonts and they were formatted weirdly. We tried to make the poster as pretty as possible, but no one had glue or scissors, so we should have brought them from home. We finished during advisory, and were prepared for the parent night
The parent night was the first run of our experiment. The survey sometimes did not work on the Chromebooks, so we had to switch Chromebooks or enter the data in manually. We found that we could make a spreadsheet of our survey that would update each time someone submitted a form. All the parents were very enthusiastic about our project and some asked questions about our research from previous studies.
The actual experiment was the same as we expected. There were no technical problems besides the Google Form. Our results were different from what we expected in our hypothesis. There were some people who did better on their second trial, and there were others who performed worse.
After the parent night, we decided that we would keep the same format because there were no difficulties in carrying out the experiment. We predicted we needed about 30 more copies of both multiplication sheets for the next day.
11/27/30
Day of psych fair!
It was a really long day even though the fair was on a late start. Most of the periods, we would hardly notice when the bell rang for passing period because people kept coming and going. Our booth was upstairs, so naturally, we had less participants than downstairs. Even so, we always had someone participating at our booth.
At around 3rd hour, we decided to change the experiment because it proved to be too easy. We decided to go to our original format and try to see if the experiment was too hard. We had one of our group members try to do the multiplication while listening for how many times "dog" was said throughout the recording. She performed far better than we first thought. We then decided that it was not too hard, but if students struggled a lot, we would go back to our simplified version. We set the mark at 10 people to see how well they were able to do both tasks.
A surprisingly large amount of people were able to catch the right amount of 'dogs' in the song and were able to do fairly well on the worksheet. We then added in our instructions to tally on the side while doing multiplication.
Some possible factors that could have affected the participant's performance included temperature, pressure, and memory. Some people (mostly adults) had not done multiplication in a long time, and that affected the performance of their first trial. After the first trial, they were warmed up and had music (and headphones that canceled out background noise) that improved their performance. Some people also had peer pressure because they were doing multiplication with their friends looking over their shoulder during their first trial, and so they were either distracted or pressured during their trial. It was also very hot on the second floor, and a smaller space, so everyone was feeling the heat. That could have affected one's concentration and ability to perform to the best of their ability.
Overall, we were happy with our experiment because there were no major problems, and we were able to improve our experiment as time passed. We also got to try other booths and it was interesting to see the research of others. This was a great experience and we hope that those who came to the fair enjoyed themselves.
11/12/18
Our group has selected the topic of multitasking. From a student's perspective, we all would like the ability to do two tasks at once, such as doing homework and listening to music at the same time. However, many adults tell us that is not possible or not accurate.
After doing further research, we suspect that it is very difficult for the brain to multitask. Many studies point out that it actually harms the brain, as well as decreases the accuracy of the results of the task.
Today, during class, we finished:
Our distribution of labor --> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iVSN1BTvGT7hJbGzf9IoUnGA0idqanBw0vYhK089lUI/edit
Choosing the topic -->
We started to gather our literature, starting with past studies done about multitasking. We found that there is a phrase called "media multitasking" that refers to the kind of multitasking when one of the tasks that distract the person is related to media, such as radio, TV shows, the Internet, and more. A Stanford study was done on this type of multitasking. We will look more into this specific study for tomorrow.
11/13/18
We continued to work on our project. The only document we have left to complete is SH13, and we are planning to work on it during our orchestra concert.
We finished SH14 yesterday:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zpNZojQ8_eCcVFNEVRRBOD1TmhL2Sxn6I3ym6lkDXcY/edit?usp=drive_web&ouid=111748286226999280011
We have found two studies so far, and we started the summarizing on both. Our group has great progress and is efficient in and we have confidence that we will finish everything on time tonight.
11/15/18
Today we established more specifics about our actual experiment. After a lot of deliberation (and playing some weird music), we decided that our experiment will be asking the participant some questions about their multitasking habits in their daily lives, then testing their ability to do two tasks at once. We will have them listen to music that has been altered while completing a simple multiplication worksheet. We will be able to see the accuracy of both activities. Our control group will be doing the worksheet without music.
We also started considering what materials we need for our project. Since it is testing a participant with worksheets, we only needed simple supplies that can be found in our backpacks or at home. Gathering materials will probably be very low cost, so we are not worried about a budget. We started all the worksheets and are preparing for the rough draft. Teamwork and communication is pretty strong, with an even distribution of labor. :)
11/16/18
Today during class we finished both worksheets that were due today, SH 16 and SH17. We also finished SH19 but we didn't have to turn it in. After finalizing details of our experiment, we also assigned who is bringing what materials. I turned in the worksheets, and we are starting our rough draft that is due on Sunday. We also fixed our SH13 because the format was wrong and we didn't properly cite some sources. You can check back with the same links from before to see the better version.
11/19/18
We brought in a big, white tri-fold for the poster for our booth. We are planning the layout of the tri-fold on the document, and so far we know what title (officially) we want and what studies we will put on it (the ones from our rough draft). We realized we need huge fonts for the title, so we are experimenting with font sizes.
Details of our experiment is finalized, we decided to change a couple things. We decided that our original experiment is too hard for participants to do, so we will simply test how well they perform without music (control) and with music (dependent variable).
11/20/18
Day before Thanksgiving break!!
We are planning to take the board home to work on it, but it will be difficult since none of us have classes in north after zero hour.
We continued to work on font sizes and color, we decided to include some multitasking related pictures to fill up the empty spaces.
During class, some people worked on the handout, and some people worked on the poster. We finished the handout and we are improving on the design of the poster.
11/26/18
We printed out all the fonts and they were formatted weirdly. We tried to make the poster as pretty as possible, but no one had glue or scissors, so we should have brought them from home. We finished during advisory, and were prepared for the parent night
The parent night was the first run of our experiment. The survey sometimes did not work on the Chromebooks, so we had to switch Chromebooks or enter the data in manually. We found that we could make a spreadsheet of our survey that would update each time someone submitted a form. All the parents were very enthusiastic about our project and some asked questions about our research from previous studies.
The actual experiment was the same as we expected. There were no technical problems besides the Google Form. Our results were different from what we expected in our hypothesis. There were some people who did better on their second trial, and there were others who performed worse.
After the parent night, we decided that we would keep the same format because there were no difficulties in carrying out the experiment. We predicted we needed about 30 more copies of both multiplication sheets for the next day.
11/27/30
Day of psych fair!
It was a really long day even though the fair was on a late start. Most of the periods, we would hardly notice when the bell rang for passing period because people kept coming and going. Our booth was upstairs, so naturally, we had less participants than downstairs. Even so, we always had someone participating at our booth.
At around 3rd hour, we decided to change the experiment because it proved to be too easy. We decided to go to our original format and try to see if the experiment was too hard. We had one of our group members try to do the multiplication while listening for how many times "dog" was said throughout the recording. She performed far better than we first thought. We then decided that it was not too hard, but if students struggled a lot, we would go back to our simplified version. We set the mark at 10 people to see how well they were able to do both tasks.
A surprisingly large amount of people were able to catch the right amount of 'dogs' in the song and were able to do fairly well on the worksheet. We then added in our instructions to tally on the side while doing multiplication.
Some possible factors that could have affected the participant's performance included temperature, pressure, and memory. Some people (mostly adults) had not done multiplication in a long time, and that affected the performance of their first trial. After the first trial, they were warmed up and had music (and headphones that canceled out background noise) that improved their performance. Some people also had peer pressure because they were doing multiplication with their friends looking over their shoulder during their first trial, and so they were either distracted or pressured during their trial. It was also very hot on the second floor, and a smaller space, so everyone was feeling the heat. That could have affected one's concentration and ability to perform to the best of their ability.
Overall, we were happy with our experiment because there were no major problems, and we were able to improve our experiment as time passed. We also got to try other booths and it was interesting to see the research of others. This was a great experience and we hope that those who came to the fair enjoyed themselves.
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