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HICSS
2009
IEEE
153views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2009»
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A Comparison of Maps and Signs for Ordered and Unordered Navigation Tasks in Virtual Worlds
Online 3D virtual worlds have many exciting and contemporary uses such as for social interaction, teaching and training, entertainment, and even for the development of virtual bus...
Daniel C. Cliburn, Todd Heino
HICSS
2009
IEEE
104views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2009»
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Second Life as a Medium for Lecturing in College Courses
Second Life is an online virtual world that is gaining popularity in academic institutions as an alternative means for collaborative and distance education. However, the number of...
Daniel C. Cliburn, Jeffrey L. Gross
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Will Google destroy western democracy? Bias in policy problem solving
: Democracy requires students to choose policy positions based on evidence, yet confirmation bias prevents them from doing so. As a preliminary step in building a policy reasoning ...
Matthew W. Easterday, Vincent Aleven, Richard Sche...
JCDL
2009
ACM
121views Education» more  JCDL 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Improving historical research by linking digital library information to a global genealogical database
Journals, letters, and other writings are of great value to historians and those who research their own family history; however, it can be difficult to find writings by specific...
Douglas J. Kennard, William B. Lund, Bryan S. Mors...
VR
2008
IEEE
128views Virtual Reality» more  VR 2008»
14 years 3 months ago
Showing Users the Way: Signs in Virtual Worlds
In this paper, we report the results of a pilot study designed to evaluate the impact of signs as navigation aids in virtual worlds. Test subjects were divided into three groups (...
Daniel C. Cliburn, Stacy Rilea