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Wayfinding Affordances Are Essential for Effective Use of Virtual Environments for Instructional Applications
Virtual environments (VEs) are becoming increasingly popular as a delivery medium for instruction. However, to leverage the unique affordances of such environments for learning, VE designers need to incorporate wayfinding mechanisms that aid users in navigating the environment into their designs. This paper discusses six wayfinding affordances to assist VE users in constructing mental models in virtual environments, information that useful to both VE designers and to educators who use VEs to teach.
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- Material Type:
- Open (Access) Journal-Article
- Date Added to MERLOT:
- July 7, 2014
- Date Modified in MERLOT:
- February 10, 2020
- Authors:
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Mary Jo Dondlinger,
Richland College
Leslie Matthew Lunce, Indiana State University - Submitter:
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Barbra Bied Sperling
- Primary Audience:
- College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional
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- Adobe reader or web browser
- Language:
- English
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This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States
