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<Pay 30L$>We want the participation of our translation experiment, again!

D51620 Galthie
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06-30-2008 01:34
I am a student of Wakayama University, Japan.
My avator name is D51620 Galthie.

We are developing the translation tool in Second Life.
Could you join our translation experiment?
After experiment, we will pay you 30 L$.
Perhaps it will be from 20 to 30 minutes in the experiment time.

SLURL
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kyoto%203Di%20Lab/153/78/32

Experiment Tasks
Your task is that asking 10 questions to me.

Expriment time is between now - 7:00 am 30 June, PDT.
(There is a possibility of extending time. )

Four people came for the experiment yesterday. Thank you!
However, I want more people to come.
(Six another people, I want more at least.)

If you have a time, could you join our experiments.
I am waiting for you to come now!

Thank you for your cooperation!
Ann Launay
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06-30-2008 01:45
You'd probably be better off not offering any money at all. 30L is about .09USD, so really not a good motivator.
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06-30-2008 01:51
but Ann that's 3 texture uploads, could make a nice chair with that and make millions in SLEX :)
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D51620 Galthie
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Thank you for the reply
06-30-2008 02:31
Thank you for your good opinion.

Possibly will it keep away a participant to give 30L$ to subjects?

Three people said that they did not need the money among four people of the subject of the yesterday's experiment.

Certainly, motivation is a difficult problem.

I want you to participate in the experiment comfortably.
Kelli May
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06-30-2008 04:26
From: D51620 Galthie
Thank you for your good opinion.

Possibly will it keep away a participant to give 30L$ to subjects?

Three people said that they did not need the money among four people of the subject of the yesterday's experiment.

Certainly, motivation is a difficult problem.

I want you to participate in the experiment comfortably.

As has been pointed out, L$30 is a tiny amount of money. All it has going for it is that it's a better rate than camping. You might get people for whom the money is an incentive, but most likely only those not wanting to have payment info on file. I doubt it'd really put anyone off. I might just come along and try it out of curiosity. Maybe on RA, you'd have been better trying to pique people's interest than trying to buy their time?
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Zaphod Kotobide
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06-30-2008 04:51
It took me all of 8 minutes to do this yesterday, and I was one of them who declined the payment. I agree with Kelli - I think you'd have a better response if you explained to us more about what the experiment is, what the tool is you're testing, etc.

From what I could gather, it's a translator. Our experiment was English/Japanese, and it appeared to work remarkably well.

Once it's complete, do you intend to release it to market? Will it be free or will there be a cost? If it's to be free, then I'd think people would generally be more inclined to spend a few minutes helping. If it is for profit, then you would probably want to consider upping the ante a bit, maybe develop a slightly more comprehensive test, and offer $L100 or so to the participants.
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06-30-2008 05:13
I dropped in and would also like to say D51620 is a nice guy and his experiment is more like a friendly chat and Inded up spending an hour talking to him with it after the 10minute experiment and the translation seem to work pretty well too. It can of course get muddled if you start talking like you would to another English speaking person, but I'm pretty sure not many translators can handle that as well as a real person would. I asked him to add my $30 to the next person, possibly he doesn't want too many people too quick
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06-30-2008 07:08
I will make a note to drop by there when I get inworld later today - and I definitely do not need L$30 for my time.
:)
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D51620 Galthie
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Writing mistake
06-30-2008 08:12
I correct expriment time because I had made a mistake. I'm truly sorry.

Failure sentence: "Expriment time is between now - 7:00 pm 30 June, PDT."
Correction sentence: "Expriment time is between now - 7:00 am 30 June, PDT."

If there is a person who wants to participate in the experiment, please feel free to send me IM with the date when you want to participate.

I might be in front of PC between 9:00p.m. 30 June and 8:00a.m. 1 July
(or more). I can correspond at those time.

P.S.
LittleMe Jewell,really I'm sorry!
Please feel free to send me IM with the date when you want to participate.