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Cognitive maps in virtual environments: facilitation of learning through the use of innate spatial abilities

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Computer graphics, virtual reality, visualisation and interaction in Africa archive
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Computer graphics, virtual reality and visualisation table of contents

Camps Bay, Cape Town, South Africa

SESSION: Session F: Presence in virtual environments table of contents

Pages: 125 - 129

Year of Publication: 2001

ISBN:1-58113-446-0

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Cathryn Johns	CVC Laboratory, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa
Edwin Blake	CVC Laboratory, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa

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SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
Eurographics: Eurographics

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

It is often difficult for people, and particularly children, to learn relationships between data points (such as the relative sizes of the planets of the solar system). This sketch introduces a study aimed at investigating whether this type of data can be more easily learned by presenting it within a Virtual Environment, where the relationships between data points is represented by equivalent spatial relationships. By converting data relationships to spatial relationships, we are able to use our innate spatial abilities to understand and remember the data. The data is thus converted from an external form, to an internal representation that is always to hand and which is mentally easy to deal with.

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