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Week 3 Homework for Psy 459 students
Part 1: Survey the entire cyberspace on Internet and the World Wide Web, looking for documents, activities, or programs that might be part of a Cyberspace Collection on Traffic Psychology. Present your results in the form of an annotated bibliography of links. That is, a title (which is also a hotlink) is presented with an explanation of why you think it might be of interest to a traffic psychology curriculum. Present a minimum of 10 titles and their annotations.
Hint: Use your bookmark as you travel around, then copy link addresses with the mouse. Be sure to try all your links!
Hint: Use WebCrawler for WWW and Veronica for Gopher. You'll probably find more information on the Gopher. Use boolean searching with truncation for best results. Warning: the information you want may not be under such obvious titles as "traffic" "driving" or "transportation" but may require digging into all sorts of documents or activites that YOU BELIEVE MIGHT BE OF USE to a traffic psychology curriculum, broadly defined.
Part 2: Copy your lynx_bookmark.html file:
www: cp lynx_bookmark.html bookmark.html
(which copies the file and names it bookmark.html)
(you can edit this file with emacs or pico)
In your labreport.html file, describe your thoughts and feelings while doing Part 1 and make a link to the bookmark.htnl file you created.
Part 3: Do maintenance work on your files:
** be sure they all have the correct *title* form;
** that all anchors are spelled correctly;
** that your files have an adequate topical index at the top;
** that your text is free of spelling errors;
** that your links work as they are supposed to;
** that you entered links requested by others;
** that your screens have a pleasant appearance;
** that you have frequent hotlinks to the top of the document;
** that all your documents are interconnected, especially your lab report paragraphs and your glossary entries.

week4hw
Homework for Week 4

Part 1 Describe how you find information in a hypertext environment such as our course files. Focus on these items:
** How you go through the Syllabus and the Instructor's Weekly Comments
** How do you find something specific when you hunt for it
** How do you navigate through the course files
** How do you fight being a pessimist?
** How do you fight getting depressed?
See for instance Takitani's method of fighting depression.
In so far as you feel comfortable doing, give details on your reasoning processes, your goals, and your reactions. For example:
Do you get "lost"?
What strategies have you learned?
How do you deal with routine frustration, uncertainty, information shock?
What advice do you have for others?
See Bogan's lab reports.
Remember to create anchors to your paragraphs and sections!!
Part 2: Make 5 new additions to your glossary.html file. At this stage, you ought to have a total of 10 entries. Update the earlier entries by adding new explanations -- NOT deleting old ones (so that we can see the progression in your understanding of a concept).
Part 3: Look at all your files and make sure that you have an HTML title which includes (a) what the file is and (b) your first and last name (c) course and NOTHING ELSE
week5hw
Week 5 Homework
Describe your experience in reading a student's papers from last semester (same one you did for your oral class presentation):
** In your estimation, what did the student accomplish in the course of one semester?
** As far as you can tell, what was the student's state of mind?
** What did you learn from these self-witnessing reports? ** How did they affect you?
** Any suggestions for future generations reading this?
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Part 2:
In your labreport.html add anchors to all your paragraphs.
As well, add 3 new links to other students' lab reports.
Note: Whenever you create a link to someone's anchored paragraph, be sure to do these three things:
(1) put an anchor before your paragraph
(2) type a line like this one:
((Diaz: please make a link in your file from your paragraph to this anchor. Thanks.))
(3) type in your paragraph comment.
(Note: The person may not always notice your request, or may forget to do it, etc. If that happens you need to remind them by sending e-mail.)
Part 3: In case you have not done this last week:
Look at all your files and make sure that you have an HTML title which includes (a) what the file is and (b) your first and last name. For example:
*title*John Hallmark's Lab Report File for Psy 459 (or 409) */title*
(but of course, you'd be using lesser than and greater than symbols instead of * and *). Nothing else should appear in the title line -- repeat: nothing else!
An HTML title is always needed as it is what gets printed on every screen and is the only clue to the browser where one is located.
week6hw
Homework for Week 6
Part 1: Use the search and index facilites provided on the instructor's Home Page to search for 3 traffic related documents or activites, and create hot links to them on your Home Page. In your labreport.html file describe how you searched and found the three links you chose. Describe the content of the three areas you found and what your reactions were.
The search tools provided include:
(1)Web addresses to explore
(2)WebCrawler
(3) The instructor's old bookmark entries which include these:
See Beauchemin's attempt however. Or see Diaz. Or, see Higa's findings. Or else take a look at Jill Kaneshiro's observations. Or, Remata's search comments.
Search gopherspace using veronica
Jump to Gopher Jewels Main Menu
(4) See also Mr. Bogan's Help files
(5)Other indexes and Meta-indexes you'll easily come across.
Part 2:
In your labreport.html add anchors to all your paragraphs.
As well, add 3 new links to other students' lab reports.
Finally, ask these 3 students by e-mail to place a link to your paragraph in their paragraph, if they are not yet aware of your request.
See Fujii on this.
Part 3:
Create 3 new links between entries in your glossary.html file and the glossary files of others. Look for entries by others that enhance your own by describing that concept in different terms, or give additional details that do not appear in yours.
week7hw
Homework for Week 7
Part 1: In your labreport.html file, create 6 new hot links to other students in your class. First, read other students' files; when you have something to comment on, note the file name and anchor (just hit =) along with notes on what you want to say (or copy text with mouse).
Second, go to your labreport.html file and type in your comment, making sure you add an anchor and a link to the student's file and anchor. ((HINT: use Control-z to get out and fg to get back -- instead of quitting and starting.)
Include at least 4 students in your 6 new links for this week.
Remember to ask the person to include a link to your paragraph.
Part 2: Go to the instructor's article that analyzes the lab reports of a previous generation. Read it and find 3 places (as marked by the anchors) to comment on.
See Fujii's comments.
week8hw
Week 8 Home Work
Part 1: Do the same as Week 7 but cross over to the students of the other course Psych 459 or Psych 409, as the case may be.
Part 2: In your labreport.html file, create 2 new links to the Instructor's Weekly Comments file by reading it and finding two places you can comment on. Use the anchors provided there to be specific in your comments.
Remember to ask the person to include a link to your paragraph.
Part 3: Final chance to clean up your files for the midterm grading is NOW! So be sure that you have done the following:
-- there is a title line on top *title* which gives your first name, last name, lab report (or glossary, etc.), Psych 409 (or 459) AND NOTHING ELSE!
-- there is a topic index at the top of your file with hotlinks to your anchors within the document
-- there are anchors distributed throughout your files
-- all your links work
-- there are no spelling errors
-- the pages appear nicely formatted
-- your e-mail address appears on your Home Page
Back to the top
week9hw
Homework for Week 9
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PSY 409 HOMEWORK for Week 9
Part 1: Describe your exploration of the 1991 Course-Integrated Online Socializing Files accessible through the Generational Curriculum Home Page on the Instructor's Home Page.
a) How did you feel while travelling through their mental spaces? What were some of your reactions? Would you have liked to participate live?
b) Were you affected by anyone's performances? What were they engaged in doing? How were they involved, as far as you can tell?
c) How would you continue this approach to building cyberspace learning communities? What experiment would you design? What do you predict will happen?
Part 2: Make comments with links to the instructor's article on his use of the PLATO system. Does it help you understand the situation better? Do you have any suggestions?
Part 3:
Create 3 new links between entries in your glossary.html file and the glossary files of others. Look for entries by others that enhance your own by describing that concept in different terms, or give additional details that do not appear in yours.
Psych 459 homework for week 9
Part 1: Explain how you understand the concept of driving personality makeover. How is it related to traffic psychology and its goals? Describe what you consider to be a good driver. How do you rate yourself? Explain how you would engineer a driving personality makeover for yourself.
See the instructor's comments on 2 stages of makeover
Part 2:
Read the instructor's article on driving behavior and comment on some specific paragraphs using the anchors provided.
Part 3:
Create 3 new links between entries in your glossary.html file and the glossary files of others. Look for entries by others that enhance your own by describing that concept in different terms, or give additional details that do not appear in yours.
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Psych 409 Homework for Week 10:
Part 1: Complete the construction of three alternate Home Pages as follows:
Standard: Links arranged in some order, each with a brief explanation. See the instructor's Home Page.
Indexical: Links arranged as in a directory or index of topics. There are no explanations. Gopher menus and many Web pages have this format. A useful type of indexical Home Page is one that lists the many topics WITHIN documents, with hot links to those anchors. Wouldn't that be real useful?
Artistic: Links arranged in an ideosyncratic manner to express the owner's aesthetic and performative interests or involvements. See for example my Alternate Home Pagewhich is still under construction.
I suggest you surf around the Web to examine other people's Home Pages. Which of the three types is most common? Which ones do you prefer and why? Keep notes of ideas you like. Here you can look at the Home Pages of 1500 people. Enjoy them! You can also check out the famous Yahoo list.
Part 2: In your labreport.html file describe your experience with Home Pages on the WWW:
a) What was the size of your sample? How did you make navigation choices?
b) What was the distribution in relation to the three types as described here? How else did they differ? Which ones did you like and why. c)What are you planning for your Alternate Home Pages?
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Philosophy of Home Page Architecture
I find that Home Pages are always under construction for those owners who are personally involved. Constructing Home Pages on the World Wide Web is an exciting activity! Just think: you have the world at your finger tips. Because you determine what the browser sees and has access to, you are acting like a virtual god -- building a cyberspace architecture through virtual pathways to people's minds. For a discussion on First Amendment rights in cyberspace you may want to check out this opinion.

Each of the 3 types of Home Page can contain 4 types of links:
A) sequential (direct)
B) reciprocal (mutual)
C) circular (recursive)
D) central (pivotal)

When you combine the 3 types of Home Page with the 4 types of Links, you obtain the following 3x4 matrix of Home Page Links: 
 Three Types of Home Page Four Types of Links
                           Sequential Reciprocal Circular Central
                           (direct)       (mutual)       (recursive)  (pivotal)
Artistic (expressive)            9        10             11             12             
Indexical (topical)              5        6              7              8              
Standard (introductory)          1        2              3              4

These 12 types of linkage structures each have their own function (or purpose).
The function of a Standard Home Page: (boxes 1 through 4)
-- acts as a pivot
-- explains areas
-- uses broad titles
-- is ordinarily kept short
The function of an Indexical Home Page: (boxes 5 through 8)
-- gives direct access
-- organizes a content area or subject
-- uses specific titles
-- can be long
The function of an Artistic Home Page: (boxes 9 through 12)
-- attracts attention
-- uses multimedia
-- promotes a view or philosophy
-- builds and encourages identification
The function of Sequential Links: (boxes 1,5,9)
-- gives access
-- facilitates exploration
The function of Reciprocal Links: (boxes 2,6,10)
-- enriches content
The function of Circular Links: (boxes 3,7,11)
-- guides exploration
-- guides access
The function of Central Links: (boxes 4,8,12)
-- builds a sense of familiarity
-- facilitates access
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Principles of Cyberspace Architecture
for Virtual Learning Communities

1. The more links are created in a hypertext super-document, the richer it is culturally (i.e., in terms of ethnolinguistics, sociolingusitics, and psycholinguistics analyses).
2. The size of a cyberspace nook or area can be measured in terms of megabyte-links. For example, the projected size of this cyberspace learning community at the end of the first generation will be:
15 x 50 x 40 = 30,000 megabyte-links
15 = about megabytes of text in the super-document
50 = average number of links in each student's document
40 = number of students in the first generation
3. The growth of cyberspace is organic. As the number of interconnecting links increases, the cyberspace develops further. The analysis of the cyberspace yields data on naturally occurring virtual learning communities of interest to the fields of psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics and ethnolinguistics.
4. Cyberspace is a representative model of the mental world, which means the spiritual world.
Psychological Characteristics of Hypertext Links
 From the psychological perspective, hypertext links in a virtual super-document created by members of a cyberspace learning community have three characteristics: affective, cognitive, and sensorimotor.
A link is a communicative act by which a member of the community transmits new information or new meaning by connecting two independent ideas which have not been related before. Links in a virtual learning community are thus motivated actions or behaviors responding to members' wishes to exchange and communicate their mental life to each other.
The affective feature of links refers to their motivation. It answers the question, Why the link was created, or, What was the person's purpose for putting a link there.
The cognitive feature of links refers to their argument or implication. It answers the question, What new information or knowledge is being created through the link, or, What is the new idea that is communicated by the link.
The sensorimotor feature of links refers to their location and appearance. It answers the question, How the links was created, or, What is its physical appearance.
The study and analysis of linkage structure is the study and analysis of communicative acts in cyberspace by members of a virtual learning community. It is the natural history of culture (ethnography), language (ethnolingusitics, sociolingusitcs, and psycholinguistics), and behavior (social psychology).
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Principles of Anchor Building
1. Where to put anchors: general considerations.
2. Where to put anchors: specific considerations.
3. Why put anchors: their functions. For example, to link two concepts speifically and to provoke comments from others.
4. Multiple anchors: same locus, different focus.
5. Name of anchors: topical structure and organization.
For more on cyberspace.
Part 3: Your glossary.html file should now contain 30 entries.

week10hw459
Psych 459 Homework for Week 10
Part 1:
Describe the results of your investigation on the dynamics of traffic convoys. What were your self-witnessign observations? How did you make them? How accurate were they? What did you observe? How do you explain what you found? What are the implications for traffic psychology? Is it going to influence your driving style in any way? Any furhter suggestions?
Part 2:
Make a topical index to your Web pages. One example may be found on the instructor's Topical Index Home Page Ideally, you would want all the anchors and all the topics and all the headings to be included. However, if this becomes too big a task for the time available, do as much as you can, selectively. You need to keep coming back to this task and continue it throughout the semester.
Part 3:
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Psych 459 Homework for Week 11
Part 1:
Describe the content of the Generational Curriculum paper you received in class for your second oral presentation. How did you react? What did you learn? What do you think the student learned? Does the content fit traffic psychology? Explain.
Part 2:
Create 6 new links within your own labreport.html file. In other words, interconnect your paragraphs with links and anchors whenever the topics are connected, even though you wrote them at different times.
Part 3:
Create 6 new links between entries in your glossary.html file and your own labreport.html file. The idea is to enhance the value of both by connecting something in your labreport that involves the entry in your glossary.
409week11hw
Psych 409 Homework for Week 11
Part 1:
Discuss your reactions to the Kuhlthau book. What is the book about? How can it help you understand and cope better? How does the book's theory relate to your own experiences? Before completing your report, read some of the other students' discussion of the Kuhlthau book, and give your reactions (make links, of course!).
Part 2:
Create 6 new links within your own labreport.html file. In other words, interconnect your paragraphs with links and anchors whenever the topics are connected, even though you wrote them at different times. Also: create 6 new links between entries in your glossary.html file and your own labreport.html file. The idea is to enhance the value of both by connecting something in your labreport that involves the entry in your glossary.
Part 3:
Make a topical index to your Web pages. One example may be found on the instructor's Topical Index Home Page Ideally, you would want all the anchors and all the topics and all the headings to be included. However, if this becomes too big a task for the time available, do as much as you can, selectively. You need to keep coming back to this task and continue it throughout the semester.
week12hw
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Psy 409 Homework for Week 12
Part 1: In your labreport.html file describe your exploration of the Swedenborg Discussion Files for Psychology and Theology on the Swedenborg Home Page Hawaii accessible through the instructor's Home Page.
a) What was the social context of the exchange? Was it rational? Did it get anywhere?
b) What were the participants trying to achieve? What was their style and character?
c) Was your visit to this cyberspace area useful? In what way? What did you learn? How did it affect you?
Week 12 Home Work for Psy 459 students
Part 1: Describe your observations on tailgating. Discuss legal, moral, and spiritual implications. Consult your notes on our class exercise for this report.
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Week 13 Homework for Psy 409 students here:
Part 1:
Part 2:
Part 3: Do maintenance work on your files:
** your e-mail address should appear on your Home Page;
** be sure they all have the correct *title* form;
** that all anchors are spelled correctly;
** that your files have an adequate topical index at the top;
** that your text is free of spelling errors;
** that your links work as they are supposed to;
** that you entered links requested by others;
** that your screens have a pleasant appearance;
** that you have frequent hotlinks to the top of the document;
** that all your documents are interconnected, especially your lab report paragraphs and your glossary entries.
week13hw459
Week 13 Homework for Psy 459
Part 1: Write up your oral presentation no.3, as you did during week 11.
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Homework for Week 14
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Psy 459 Homework for Week 14
Part 1: Survey the entire cyberspace on Internet and the World Wide Web, looking for documents, activities, or programs that might be part of a Cyberspace Collection on Traffic Psychology. Present your results in the form of an annotated bibliography of links. That is, a title (which is also a hotlink) is presented with an explanation of why you think it might be of interest to a traffic psychology curriculum. Present a minimum of 10 titles and their annotations.
Hint: Use your bookmark as you travel around, then copy link addresses with the mouse. Be sure to try all your links!
Hint: Use WebCrawler for WWW and Veronica for Gopher. You'll probably find more information on the Gopher. Use boolean searching with truncation for best results. Warning: the information you want may not be under such obvious titles as "traffic" "driving" or "transportation" but may require digging into all sorts of documents or activites that YOU BELIEVE MIGHT BE OF USE to a traffic psychology curriculum, broadly defined.
Part 2: Copy your lynx_bookmark.html file:
www: cp lynx_bookmark.html bookmark.html
(which copies the file and names it bookmark.html)
(you can edit this file with emacs or pico)
In your labreport.html file, describe your thoughts and feelings while doing Part 1 and make a link to the bookmark.htnl file you created.
Part 3: Do maintenance work on your files:
** be sure they all have the correct *title* form;
** that all anchors are spelled correctly;
** that your files have an adequate topical index at the top;
** that your text is free of spelling errors;
** that your links work as they are supposed to;
** that you entered links requested by others;
** that your screens have a pleasant appearance;
** that you have frequent hotlinks to the top of the document;
** that all your documents are interconnected, especially your lab report paragraphs and your glossary entries.
week14hw409
Week 14 Homework for Psy 409
Part 1: Describe how you relate to titles, file names, and e-mail or URL addresses:
** How you make up file names and how you recognize them
** How you interpret other people's file names
** How you make up the names of your anchors and sub-headings
** How you keep track of files (WWW, UNIX, Pine, your diskettes and hard drive)
** How do you handle e-mail addresses and keep track of them
** How do you figure out other people's HREF addresses and anchors
** Any suggestions?
Part 2: Read the instructor's article on titles and comment on its content. Be sure to link your comments to anchors in that article.
week15hw
Homework for Week 15
Part 1: Evaluate what you have accomplished this semester:
** Examine your Web pages. How do they compare to others in class?
** What did it take to accomplish this? Was it worth it? Why?
** What suggestions and advice do you have for future generations of students?
** Where did you start with this class and how far did you get? What would you do differently?
** Are you happy with what you have accomplished? What future do you see for yourself on the World Wide Web?
** What advice and suggestioons do you have for the instructor? Should he continue his efforts in building a generational cyberspace superdocument?
** What do you think should be done with this generation's files? Are you in favor of maintaining them? Do you intend to leave your files on the Web for future generations to use and link to? Do you plan to revisit the cyberspace learning area in the next few years or decades? What do you expect will happen?
** Any suggestions on changes for next semester's generation? Any new type of Awards to be given? Any new type of Homework assignments you can think of?
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What happened during Week 1?
Three students have sent me e-mail crying with frustration: the CSS server in Porteus won't accept their login names. I am sorry for you guys! I know how disappointing it can be not to be able to logon when you feel like doing it. It's like being cut off from your favorite entertainment or addictive attachment!
Of course I wired e-mail to our webmaster god Eric Hagen and I am hoping he will be able to do it today (1/26/95). Maybe the four of us should walk over to Porteus 339 and wait while he is checking and fixing the directories! O.K., let's do it! ***********
Well we did...but unfortunately no one was there, so we left sheepishly (the seven of us) being contented with leaving a message. However, Tod Takitani stayed around hunting for the Webmaster. Did he succeed?
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Just got word from Eric hagen that he fixed the problem. Hope it works now.
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week2 [anchor]
What happened during Week 2?
Kevin Bogan, our Volunteer Internet Coach, has been active during our second week. Here are some exchanges he has had. Some of this information may be of relevance to you:
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"I followed the instructions given, but was unable to create the file. I was not asked to save after control x and control c. Is that because I > must have typed a document in the file first, or should I be able to > label a file without a document?
Trudy, I believe you were using Mac. Another fellow had the same problem. He was not given a choice to save after entering C-c C-x which told him C-c DEL We got around it by entering C-z after seeing the DEL. And no, you do not have to enter anything into the file to save it. (Or at least others didn't.)
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"help! i don't know what i did, but i think i screwed up! i typed up my home page, but i forgot to open it for everyone to look at and now even i can't look at my own homepage! what do i have to do to correct it? help!!! please get back to me as soon as possible! thank you! jill=( that's an unhappy face on its side!
Jill, It is very frustrating to do your work and not see it through to completion. Take heart though, it is quite possible that you did everything you were supposed to do...and it did not work. This does not I repeat - THIS DOES NOT EQUATE TO YOU HAVING SCREWED UP. If you can, do a paradigm shift and, rather than thinking that you screwed up or that the machine screwed up, think of what happened, what was supposed to happen, and what needs to be done to reconcile the two.
Jill, I need more specifics to help you. Next time tell me what you were trying to do, what you did exactly, and what the error message or other indication was. If I am not mistaken, you created your kane.html using the instructions to go to telnet, open www.soc.hawaii.edu, login and at the www$: prompt use emacs to create the file. Then you went to lynx, possibly the css home page, etc. and found the Students Home Page and at that point you could not open your page. Well, I can't open mine either! I think part of the path (contrib) needs to be up-dated. I am not sure, and I am checking it out. Best thing to do is to go back to www$: lynx kane.html and see if those commands get you in.
Good luck and let me know how it goes,
BFN, Kevin.
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Actually, (this is Leon James) I think the reason you can't open the student Home Pages is that they have not been created yet! (Bogan's Home Page works, I tried it!) Try opening up the student lab reports -- several of those already work (e.g., the winners of the awards below). Just keep trying the pages all week and you'll be able to see more of them each time.
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Subject: Sat 9:30 am CLIC
Folks, I will be at CLIC at 9:30 a.m. to help out. Please be as specific with your requests as you possibly can. Also, if you have fingered out ways around problems, let me know. And remember document everything you do, think, and feel. Please, remember that you are going through the worst week of all of this. It does get easier. After you ahve mastered the basics, you will extend yourselves and be frustrated at a higher plateau in the search process.
OH, WHAT A FEELING... FRUSTRATION!
BFN, Kevin. ***********