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Student Blog: Student Cameo 1Created by Jim Thomas (North Carolina State University) on March 27, 2007
This guy was awesome - I can't believe he is as old as his resume suggests, he is extremely good looking and young at heart.
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Actually, Bertoline and Dorjgotov, but the subject line was too long...Haptics - touch, virtual touch, force feedbackEarly - insert needle for training, skin deforms then suddenly punches through, so real you might drop the device from shockExtremely cool demo of moving cubes and soda cans with full physics, change gravity to that of Jupiter. 20% of learners are "haptic" help different learning styles.Virtual physics lab - springs.
Example of an immersive Virtual EnvironmentStereo polarized glasses (3D!)Declarative knowledge, procedural knowledge, strategic knowlegeMuch of this can be articulated through people's built-in proclivity for putting together landscapes.Awesome precision on the 3D graphics here. Mouse-based movement over landscape, extremely fine resolution. Shows a low-gradient river in Durango, and then higher scale for the Mississippi.What is a river terrace? Snake River in Wyoming.Just so happens this author has rafted here.Software is called iView3D ivs3d.comShow a river cutting through a mountain "Split Mountain".Assessment - how do you test?They taught the same class the same way for 4 years,scores got statistically better when they went through GeoWall.