I know I really shouldn’t have, but I just wanted to try it out. And then it turned out to be a pretty awesome ride-with lots of room for groceries and a really trusting skinny hipped friend with a weak neck, if I can find one of those. I found it on Tuesday and I […]
Category Archives: Working as a Test Subject, Tokyo Area
I’ve been doing some extra work. More than one of the regular extras has a self published book that they can’t explain the topic of in less than ten minutes, if at all. I have so much in common with these people I’m wondering, and quite scared of the possibility of meeting the future Mr. […]
So I went to the experiment yesterday, and there was definitely no track involved. The consent form says that the purpose of the study was to collect dialogue data between human users and automatic dialogue systems and to evaluate the systems by investigating how they react to the human users’ behavior. “Human users,” ha. ha. […]
I responded to an ad that had this in it: Task: – testing a computer road navigation system. – making conversation about road navigation with a computer system. So from 4:30-6:30 on Monday I’m going to go see what that means and make 10000 yen. In my mind I had built it up to mean […]
First of all I must say that my apartment smells like hamster although I don’t have any. I should address that soon. It’s good to get that out in a public place. Next, I bought a lamp today, and the sales man told me that there was one screw I needed to screw in. Then […]
to a new study. So the Mystery wash didn’t work out as I’d hoped. I still use it even though it has given me a small patch of dry skin under my left eyebrow. They said I didn’t have to send it back, and I can’t say which one because I signed a confidentiality agreement, […]
This month I was accepted into a study to test a new face wash. I’ve got the whole being white thing going for me in Tokyo, and after making 200 dollars to wear and critique eye fold tape in the fall, I thought I wouldn’t mind making 300 dollars to wash my face twice a […]
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