Project Glossary - adbrown13/401GroupProject GitHub Wiki

Admin - Person in charge of running the research, will also be observing the user's responses. Researcher or research assistant who will not be partaking in the experiment. Note: Admin has extra rights to view files out of the context of the experiment.

Admin mode - This is a mode only available to the admin. It allows to choose specific categories to be displayed (Audio, Visual or both)

Normal mode - This is a mode available to the participant to be able to view the media files and rate them.

System user - Generic title to encompass all users of the system.

Participant - The person viewing and rating the displayed media. Can also be called the observer by a researcher.

Tester - The person observing and administrating the execution of the experiment.

Experiment - The viewing and voting of the either audio, visual or audio visual files collected by the researcher.

Audio file - Sound file of an individual summarizing a story. Will be in the .wav format.

Visual file - Point light display of an individual's upper body gestures while summarizing a story. Will be in the .C3D file format.

C3D - File format used for storing motion and gesture data.

Audio Visual file - The audio and visual file played simultaneously.

Femininity rating - A rating of perceived femininity relative to a base line example presented to the participants by the administrator prior to the experiment.

Naturalness rating - A rating of perceived naturalness in presentation relative to a base line example presented to the participants by the administrator prior to the experiment.

Point light display - "A few moving dots that reflect the motion of some key joints of the moving organism." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_motion)