CANCER MYSTERY--FORENSIC SCIENCE ON CDROM

这项研究的目的是完成一个开发和评估一个 一系列基于数字的法医科学教育谜团。这些 神秘案例研究是为15-18岁的青少年设计的， 专注于法医科学，避免癌症风险，以及科学 方法。全动态、基于视频的交互式多媒体产品将 允许用户承担其工作是法医的角色 通过现场收集和检查，检查每个病例一例或多例死亡 证据，对嫌疑人和证人的互动询问，以及 进行交互式尸检。用户将取得进展 通过应用知识向上解决日益困难的案例 在早些时候的调查中获得的。本计划的目标是：1) 教育用户有关法医学和癌症风险的知识；2)允许用户 将新知识应用于自己的癌症危险行为，3)改进 用户在应用科学方法方面的技能，以及4)生成 将用户对科学的兴趣作为一种职业。焦点小组讨论将是 用于衡量过程结果，调查问卷将 通过比较来衡量知识、态度和技能变化的结果 治疗和比较条件。报道和传播计划 将完成这一阶段。成品将是最先进的 交互式多媒体。 建议的商业应用：到1999年，应该会有大约 安装了1.61亿个CD-ROM驱动器，主要在北美和 英语世界。个人电脑软件的销售额应该会增长至少20% 到1997年，自销售以来，以及学校的规模和速度 家用多媒体PCS持续上涨，消费市场 特别吸引人。预测表明，孩子们的教育 预计到2019年，娱乐光盘市场将增长到16亿美元 1999年。除此之外，基于数字的在线分销是一种 有可能。1996年，在线营销产生了约5亿美元的收入 每年；到2000年，这一数字可能达到66亿美元。

The aim of this research is to complete development and evaluation of a series of digitally-based forensic science education mysteries. These mystery case studies are designed for adolescents aged 15-18 years, and focus on forensic science, avoidance of cancer risks, and the scientific method. The full motion, video-based, interactive multimedia product will allow users to assume the role of a medical examiner whose job it is to examine one or more deaths per case by collecting and examining on-site evidence, interactive questioning of suspects and witnesses, and conducting interactive post mortem examinations. Users will progress upward through increasingly difficult cases by applying knowledge gained in earlier investigations. The goal of this program is to: 1) educate users about forensic science and cancer risk; 2) allow users to apply new knowledge to their own cancer risk behaviors, 3) improve users' skills in the application of scientific methods, and 4) generate user interest in science as a career. Focus group discussions will be used to measure process outcomes, and survey questionnaires will measure knowledge, attitude, and skill change outcomes by comparing treatment and comparison conditions. A report and dissemination plan will complete this phase. The finished product will be state of-the-art interactive multimedia. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION: By 1999 there should be about 161 million installed CD-ROM drives, mostly in North America and the English speaking world. PC software should see sales rise at least 20% through 1997, and since sales, as well as size and speed of school and home-use multimedia PCS continues to rise, the consumer market is particularly attractive. Forecasts indicate that the children's education and entertainment CD-ROM market is expected to grow to $1.6 billion by 1999. Beyond that point, digitally-based on-line distribution is a possibility. On-line marketing in 1996 is generating about $500 million annually; by 2000 that number may reach $6.6 billion.