My+Experiment

So what I did for my product experiment is what you would probably see on //Mythbusters.// On February 11, 2010, Craven Community College was holding a video game expo in the student center for anyone who wanted to play video games. Taking this opportunity, I decided to do my experiment during this expo. Although there were many benefits for me to chose from, I decided to pick the one I got the most information on. According to studies, video games can help enhance a players vision during a short or long period of time, I decided to try out this experiment.

My experiment was going to be broken down into three sections.

My first section was to record people's visual skills. What I did was create a visual chart you would find at the eye doctor. You can see my visual chart here.



After finishing my chart, I started to work on some permission slips. In order for others to be part of my experiment, I needed to get their parent's permission. You can see the permission slip here.



The next day, me and seven other students went to the video game expo. Four students were catagorized as "Non-Gamers," those who never or rarely play video games, and then there were the "Gamers," those who play video games on a daily basis. Starting with the non-gamers, I made each person read three different lines from the chart. After the non-gamers finished, I went on with the gamers and did the exact same thing. The results in the end of this section were great.

For my second section I made both gamers and non-gamers play a video game. Studies show that first person shooters end up having the greatest effect with vision, so for this experiment, I chose //Modern Warfare 2// for the Xbox 360. For five minutes, both groups played one round of a free-for-all match, starting with the non-gamers and following with the gamers.

Exactly like the first section, the third section was about figureing out if there was a change in results from the first section. Starting with the non-gamers, each one read three lines just like before and then gamers doing the same thing as the non-gamers did.

In the end, I retrieved some great results and I couldn't be any more happier from what I proved that day.