CANCER MYSTERY--FORENSIC SCIENCE ON CDROM

本研究的目的是完成开发和评估的一个 一系列基于数字的法医科学教育之谜。 这些 神秘案例研究是为15-18岁的青少年设计的， 专注于法医学，避免癌症风险，以及科学 法 全动态、基于视频的交互式多媒体产品将 允许用户扮演体检医师的角色， 通过现场收集和检查， 证据，对嫌疑人和证人进行互动式询问，以及 进行互动式尸检。 用户会进步 通过运用知识， 在早期的调查中获得。 该计划的目标是：1） 教育用户有关法医科学和癌症风险; 2）允许用户 将新知识应用于自己的癌症风险行为，3）改善 用户在应用科学方法方面的技能，以及4）生成 用户对科学的兴趣作为一种职业。 焦点小组讨论将在 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 处理和比较条件。 报告和传播计划 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， 安装了1.61亿个CD-ROM驱动器，大部分在北美和 英语世界。PC软件的销售额将至少增长20% 到1997年，以及自销售以来，以及学校的规模和速度， 家用多媒体个人电脑继续上升，消费市场 特别有吸引力。预测显示， 及娱乐光碟市场预期于二零零零年增长至十六亿元 1999.除此之外，基于数字的在线分发是一个 可能性1996年，网上销售收入约为5亿美元 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.