An Immersive Virtual Environment for Collaborative Geovisualization
This addresses the need for collaborative educational tools in geography, but it is incremental as it applies existing VR methods to a specific domain.
The paper tackled the problem of collaborative geography education by developing an immersive virtual reality environment, resulting in a user-study with 30 participants that evaluated usability and interaction methods.
This paper presents an immersive virtual reality environment that can be used to develop collaborative educational applications. Multiple users can collaborate within the virtual shared space and communicate with each other through voice. To asses the feasibility of the collaborative environment a novel case-study concerned the education of a geography was developed and evaluated. The geovisualization experiment scenario explores the possibility of learning geography in a collaborative virtual environment. A user-study with 30 participants was performed. Participants evaluated and commented on the usability and interaction methods used within the virtual environment.