The effects of navigational control and environmental detail on learning in 3D virtual environments

Proceedings - IEEE Virtual Reality

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 11-14

  Ragan, Eric D ^a   Huber, Karl J ^a   Laha, Bireswar ^a   Bowman, Doug A ^a  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

educational software; landmarks; learning; navigation; virtual environments; virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

3-D VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; DESIGN FEATURES; DESIGN ISSUES; EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE; EDUCATIONAL VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; IMMERSIVE; LANDMARKS; LEARNING; LEARNING ACTIVITY; LEARNING OUTCOME; SPATIAL ABILITIES; VIDEO GAME; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

ANIMALS; EXPERIMENTS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; NAVIGATION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84860775251     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VR.2012.6180868     Document Type: Conference Paper

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