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Watkins, Diana Sell – 1997
This paper reports on a study to design, develop, pilot test, evaluate, and assess an online Internet community system during the months May-July, 1997 at Nova Southeastern University-Programs for Higher Education (NSU PHE). The system was used as a prototype for developing and studying techniques for building virtual communities. Project research…
Descriptors: Community, Computer Interfaces, Computer Software, Computer System Design
Taylor, Wayne – 1997
Undertaken in conjunction with a larger study that investigated the educational efficacy of students building their own virtual worlds, this study measures the reactions of students in grades 4-12 to the experience of being immersed in virtual reality (VR). The study investigated the sense of "presence" experienced by the students, the…
Descriptors: Computer Graphics, Computer Interfaces, Computer Uses in Education, Display Systems