Science Buddies: "Ask an Expert"

Hi,my daughter is doing her science fair project on virtual reality,"Its not just for gaming"
Is the technology used in Virtual reality advancing us to becoming better ,healthier and efficient humans.
With her Oculus Riff my daughter has researched VR in the medical industry.She has contacted developers with her plan and has been given software to experiment with that is used by 1.medical students 2.medical professionals 3.medical patients
Her research,development and process of the experiment has been done primarily digitally,on her laptop,email correspondence with professionals,website interaction and experimenting within virtual reality software.To follow instructions keeping a log she has been printing out web history logs, communication emails with doctors,software developers and news articles and keeping them in a binder in specific catagories.The information and her research is quite intensive and many pages.My concern is that due to its nature and it's use digitally a complete hand written log would an extremely time consuming and redundant task.She has taken notes on the printed pages and the binder is very organized informative and easy to follow.CAn you offer any other suggestions for her and is this binder an acceptable variation for her log book.

Hi Shwories,

The Science Buddies Project Guide covers lab notebooks at the following link:

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... m#overview

From your description it sounds as if your daughter has collected some information for her binder that could be considered background research. If so, she might separate that from the materials directly associated with her experiment. Those materials should go into a lab notebook.

Printed information is usually taped or glued to lab notebook pages. Loose leaf binders are less than ideal because the unbound pages can be torn out or otherwise lost. But you might want to talk with your daughter's teacher to find out if the binder is OK for a notebook.

I hope this helps. Please ask again if you have more questions.

A. Norman