Lovefield Lab opens for research collaboration

The first public version of Lovefield Lab is now open, beginning with a study in preparation on targeted vegetation movement. We are sharing the question, current protocol and methods while we refine the study design and tools. Your input can help shape the approach before we collect data for the first study series.

The question comes from my practice. I experience changes in the movement of trees that seem connected with where I direct my attention. The study asks whether the relative movement of two selected areas changes according to which area I am asked to address.

In the current approach, the software obtains each target from an independent random-number service and gives me the instruction during a recording. A camera records both areas, and the retained instructions and timing records connect those targets with the video. The analysis then compares movement in the two areas during the same periods.

The study is designed as a growing series of fresh recordings. New runs will be added in recording order, and the results will show both individual findings and the accumulated evidence. Before the series begins, we will publish and fix its protocol, analysis methods, settings and software version.

We are also adding public start registration on the Base blockchain. Before each run in the series begins its timed sequence, a public record will link it to its fixed settings and software version. That start record cannot later be edited or withdrawn by the researcher. Registered runs will remain visible on the Study data page even if they are interrupted or their recordings or analyses are missing.

We plan to publish the original recordings, measurements, target instructions, timing records and exact code in the Lab so you can reproduce the calculations. Runs without the expected response and missing measurements will be accounted for under rules fixed in advance. Earlier published versions will remain available, and runs could also be livestreamed. The aim is to make the work independently checkable and reduce reliance on the researcher’s account of what happened.

At this opening stage, we invite you to review the protocol, software and analysis methods, and help identify flaws before we begin the first study series.

Practitioners and researchers bring different kinds of knowledge to this work. Practice supplies observations and ways of exploring them. Research helps turn particular questions into studies we can carry out, interpret and publish together. The separate preliminary wind study is another part of this developing research program.

If you work with research methods, statistics, software development or video measurement, you could start by reviewing one part of the protocol, examining the code or checking an analysis method. From there, we can explore a collaboration that fits your interests and expertise.

Explore Lovefield Lab, or get in touch about contributing to the research.