060143

About this trial

Last updated 8 years ago

Study ID

060143

Status

Completed

Type

Observational

Placebo

Accepting

18 to 40 Years

All

Not accepting

Healthy Volunteers

Trial Timing

Started 19 years ago

This study will investigate how people learn best about genetics. It involves participating in activities in NHGRI's Immersive Virtual Environment Laboratory (IVE lab), where digital "virtual worlds" are created that appear to surround the subject when he or she wears a head-mounted display. English-speaking men and women between 18 and 40 years of age may be eligible for this study. Participants are randomly assigned to one of two groups, each of which receives a different type of information, once in the IVE lab. Subjects complete a questionnaire before and after performing the activities in the lab. The questionnaire evaluates the subject's knowledge of genetics and tests some reading and number skills. ...

- INCLUSION/EXCLUSION CRITERIA

All participants in this study will be healthy adult volunteers. Eligibility criteria for
the study are: (1) being 18-40 years of age; (2) being able to speak English and having
basic English reading and writing skills; and (3) not having taken a genetics course in the
past five years. Both men and women will be included in the study. We will exclude women in
their last trimester of pregnancy from the study, due to the small chance of study
participants tripping or bumping into walls.

Because we are interested in how members of the general public learn best about genomic
topics, participants in this study will be healthy adults. Individuals who are particularly
susceptible to motion sickness will be excluded. Therefore, all participants will be
screened for the following conditions prior to enrollment in the study: self-reported
diagnosis with epilepsy, low vision, hearing problems, or vestibular disorders (e.g.,
dizziness, vertigo, motion sickness).

Use of Virtual Reality to Communicate Concepts of Genomics to the General Public