Re: [virtualcommons-developer] activity availability / levels / etc.

[Allen L. <All...@as...>]

Also, I think we will need to turn savings into a consistent savings
per day because that's how the calculation on whether or not the team
makes it to the next level is done per day.  So instead of the level 1
recycling savings of 2.15 / week being applied at the end of the week,
we'd apply .31 savings / day .. thoughts?

>From the experiment design doc that Marco circulated earlier:

At the first level 5 activities are possible. If during one day the
average emission reduction of group members reaches 10 pounds, your
group moves to the next level. At level 2 you get 5 extra activities
and you can progress to level 3 if the average emission reduction in
your group is 20 pounds during one day.  If you do not reach the
target during one day, the next day the group has a fresh start.
Emission reductions of the previous day do not count for the new day.


On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Allen Lee <All...@as...> wrote:
> Marco, Hari:
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> I'm working out the data model for the activities on the server side
> and have a quick question.  Currently Activities have the following
> pieces of data:
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> - name
> - brief summary
> - longer description
> - url (as citation)
> - savings value (as a decimal)
> - level (1, 2, or 3)
> - schedule of availability (these are modeled as a many-to-one since
> there are multiple timeslots for certain Activities though there's
> also a boolean to signify that the Activity is available all day)
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> Is any of this data treatment-specific - in other words, that you may
> want to vary from one experiment run to another?  For example, is
> eating a locally sourced organic lunch always a Level 1 activity or
> could it be moved to Level 2 or Level 3 in a different experiment
> treatment?  This same question applies to the availability of an
> Activity and the savings associated with that Activity, though I think
> those are more sensible to be direct attributes of an Activity.
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