Serious playground: using<i>Second Life</i>to engage high school students in urban planning

Mallan, Kerry; Foth, Marcus; Greenaway, Ruth; Young, Greg

doi:10.1080/17439884.2010.494432

Cited by 31 publications

(16 citation statements)

References 12 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The growing presence of digital devices at home raises many questions about their influence on adolescents' reading and writing competence [23]. The use of technology is undoubtedly a source of motivation for the majority of adolescents, and some studies have demonstrated a positive relation between technology use and academic results [24,25]. Nevertheless, the use of technology mainly arouses controversy, with its supporters and detractors in terms of the effect on students' academic performance [26,27].…”

Section: Ict Outside School and Their Influence On Students' Academicmentioning

confidence: 99%

Incidence of a Non-Sustainability Use of Technology on Students’ Reading Performance in Pisa

et al. 2020

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article describes an investigation that made a comparative analysis of the influence of the use of technology for non-academic activities on the reading performance of students in 21 countries within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), as measured by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). To do this, we coded the SumIC001-008-010 variables (“Devices available at home” and “How often do you use digital devices for the following activities outside school”) in the PISA survey and quantified the effect by the proportion of variance explained of each variable in the model for each country. The results show that the reading score increases according to the variable for type and quantity of devices at home but falls drastically in all 21 countries when the “SumIC001” variable exceeds 15 points. Our research also found that the two activities that most negatively impacted reading performance if done on a regular basis were “playing online games via social networks” and “uploading your own created contents.” These results would seem to confirm that the non-sustainability and prolonged use of technology outside school is objectively negative for the development of reading competence in young people.

show abstract

Section: Ict Outside School and Their Influence On Students' Academicmentioning

confidence: 99%

Incidence of a Non-Sustainability Use of Technology on Students’ Reading Performance in Pisa

et al. 2020

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Interactive 3D virtual environment has made a significant impact on educational thinking (Mallan et al 2010;Goldparvar-Fard et al 2010). Web-based virtual 3D game environment was Computing in Civil Engineering (2012) Downloaded from ascelibrary.org by New York University on 08/02/15.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Augmented 3D iPad Mobile Application for Communication, Collaboration, and Learning (CCL) of Building MEP Systems

Shen

Jiang²

2012

Computing in Civil Engineering (2012)

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The goal of this research is to gain better understanding of how BIM models can be used to create mobile 3D game environments for some serious purpose other than entertainment. This project was motivated by the perspective that the capability of BIM creating realistic 3D virtual game environments for collaboration, communication and learning (CCL). The wide dissemination of mobile devices is driving many computer applications toward the direction of ubiquitous mobile accessibility. Considering the popularity of the iPad mobile device, a BIM model of an institutional building was created for this 3D mobile game application on iPad. This game application allows users to visualize and interact with the HVAC BIM components. In this paper, we reported our preliminary findings in developing a BIM-based iPad 3D game application for CCL activities in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC). Technical barriers of using BIM models to create mobile 3D CCL applications were also discussed. The detailed system architecture and implementation framework were presented in this paper. Differences between the developed program and the existing BIM mobile programs were elaborated to distinguish the developed program from the off-the-shelf BIM mobile programs, such as Vella and Autodesk Inventor mobile viewer. The preliminary results indicated that fairly complex BIM models including multiple building systems can be imported and created through 3D virtual-built environments to conducted CCL activities in the AEC domain.

show abstract

“…2 nd Life as a major player in 3D virtual game environment gained significant interests from educational community due to its potential of creating an immersive virtual learning environment (Mallan et al 2010;Warburton 2009). However, one of its major drawbacks is the difficulty to create realistic built environments using its own primitive-shape library, and it has significant issues in its interoperability with BIM models (Ku 2011).…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Creating 3D Web-Based Game Environment Using BIM Models for Virtual On-Site Visiting of Building HVAC Systems

Shen

Jiang

Grosskopf

et al. 2012

Construction Research Congress 2012

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

A web-based 3D game project was presented in this paper to demonstrate the process of using building information modeling (BIM) to create an interactive 3D on-line 'Green' training environment. The system architecture, the implementation process and major components of this virtual training environment were discussed. Existing studies on BIM-based collaborations mainly focused on local-file-sharing approach using proprietary applications. Limited research focused on using BIM as an online gaming platform to create a web browser-based interactive 3D virtual environment for collaboration, learning and/or training. The gap was partially caused by the lack of understanding how to implement a BIMbased game in web browser environment. In this paper, the authors provided an implementation example using a hospital BIM model to create an interactive web-based 3D BIM game environment to allow users to visualize and interact with the BIM components using regular web browsers. The intention of this project is to create a proprietaryindependent training environment to conduct energy re-commissioning trainings for hospital facility management staff. This virtual BIM environment can potentially be customized for engineering student learning and project collaborations as well. The conclusion was that current BIM and game technology are mature enough to allow us to create serious web-based interactive learning/training virtual environment. The successful integration of BIM and web browsers paved the way for many learning and training applications, which need builtenvironment as context.

show abstract

Serious playground: usingSecond Lifeto engage high school students in urban planning

Cited by 31 publications

References 12 publications

Incidence of a Non-Sustainability Use of Technology on Students’ Reading Performance in Pisa

Incidence of a Non-Sustainability Use of Technology on Students’ Reading Performance in Pisa

An Augmented 3D iPad Mobile Application for Communication, Collaboration, and Learning (CCL) of Building MEP Systems

Creating 3D Web-Based Game Environment Using BIM Models for Virtual On-Site Visiting of Building HVAC Systems

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About