Non-Immersive Experience: Audio Narrative
For the non-immersive experience, we chose an excerpt from the audio recording of Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney. We chose this recording because its content most closely matched that of the immersive experience. Both of these experiences attempt to re-create the sit-in experience for the participant so that the participant feels as if they are actually experiencing the event.
Non-Immersive Participant Instructions
1. When you are ready, please click the play icon and close your
eyes as you listen to the narrative. The narration in this audio clip is an excerpt from Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down (unabridged) written by Andrea Davis Pinkney and narrated by Myra Lucretia Taylor.
2. When finished, note the time on your watch and tell your facilitator the time.
3. Click here to take the post-experience survey. Thank you! |
ABOVE: Civil rights activists John Salter, Joan Trumpauer, and Anne Moody stage a nonviolent sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter in Jackson, Mississippi, May 28, 1963. The gathering crowd of segregation supporters pours sugar, ketchup, and mustard on the activists. Wisconsin Historical Society.
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Non-Immersive Experience Test Protocol
We used a script to ensure that Non-Immersive test participants followed this evaluation protocol:
We used a checklist to help us with both the immersive and non-immersive evaluations.
- The participant completes a consent form.
- Participants receive an email with a link to the pre-evaluation survey at least three days prior to the evaluation.
- Participant sits quietly for 5 minutes and tries to relax.
- The participant straps on the Basis Peak watch and sits for another 2 minutes as the watch captures biometric data.
- The facilitator escorts the participant to the exhibit area to read and learn about the lunch counter sit-in protests.
- The facilitator walks the participant to the exhibit and suggests that they experience the exhibit with closed eyes. (The exhibit experience lasts just under 2 minutes.)
- The facilitator escorts the participant back to the discussion area and removes the Basis Peak watch.
- The participant takes a post-evaluation survey.
- The participant discusses their experience with the facilitator.
We used a checklist to help us with both the immersive and non-immersive evaluations.