Ideas for Course Activities 

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Unsure of how to finish your 10 hours? 

Try one of the following (and consider how you'll assemble ideas like these into your projects):

• Learn about studies and software from last year's wiki in the Course Archives

• Read some of these resources

• Find new data set examples that can be visualized in VR

• Identify software that can visualize said data sets

• Find, download, try, and document new software related to visualization in VR

• Characterize types of VR software

• Identify metrics for VR software

  • Ease, Power, Depth, Support, Learnability, Tutorials, Documentation

  • User base, Types of users supported

• Find and read papers and web about efforts (like Searis)

• Find and read papers and web pages about software

• If tutorials exist for software, do them

• Create tutorials for using visualization software

  • Document the process of creating the tutorials

• Interview some experts

  • application scientists at research labs

  • Vis/VR managers at research labs

• Create, post, and analyze survey results

  • Software used

  • Software evaluation

• Flesh out gaps in the wiki