Title :
Virtual drama as a learning medium: the Caracol Time Travel project
Author :
Moshell, J. Michael ; Hughes, Charles E. ; Reed, Dean ; Chase, D.Z. ; Chase, Arlen
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electron. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
Abstract :
Virtual drama is based on the use of a shareable virtual world as a stage setting, with avatars controlled by actors and audience members. In this experiment, students built a virtual world to teach concepts of Mesoamerican archaeology and the cultural history of the ancient Maya
Keywords :
archaeology; courseware; groupware; history; humanities; student experiments; virtual reality; Caracol Time Travel project; Mesoamerican archaeology; actors; ancient Maya; audience members; avatars; cultural history; learning medium; shareable virtual world; stage setting; students; virtual drama; Avatars; Educational institutions; Electrical capacitance tomography; Humans; Java; Production; Programming profession; Solid modeling; Tellurium; Virtual environment;
Conference_Titel :
Virtual Reality, 2000. Proceedings. IEEE
Conference_Location :
New Brunswick, NJ
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0478-7
DOI :
10.1109/VR.2000.840510
