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Abstract | ||
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Online virtual galleries have been available since the inception of the World Wide Web, mostly in two-dimensional format. More recently, advances in technology have given rise to three-dimensional virtual galleries. There have been relatively few comparative studies done on the effectiveness of two- and three-dimensional environments as hosts for virtual galleries. We have undertaken a comparative study in order to assess the differences between the two types of environments, looking particularly at recreational and educational value to novice users. Navigation is a problem largely associated with three-dimensional environments for novice users. Our study also looked at whether the level of navigational aid in a three-dimensional environment would affect these two factors. Templates of African art galleries were designed for our application to generate three virtual galleries: one was two-dimensional and the other two were three-dimensional, with each gallery varying in the level of navigational aid provided. Results of user studies indicate that visitors to the gallery that had a higher level of navigational support were more likely to explore the gallery and enjoyed themselves more than in the other galleries. The two-dimensional gallery was found to be more suitable for educational purposes as visitors tended to read more information about the artwork than in the other three-dimensional galleries. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2003 | 10.1145/602330.602333 | Afrigraph |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
comparative study,two-dimensional gallery,online virtual gallery,three-dimensional virtual gallery,novice user,three-dimensional environment,navigational aid,virtual gallery,african art gallery,three-dimensional gallery,vrml,world wide web,three dimensional,navigation,virtual environment | VRML,Computer science,Navigational aid,Recreation,Human–computer interaction,Multimedia,User studies,African art | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
1-58113-643-9 | 5 | 0.54 |
References | Authors | |
16 | 3 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zayd Hendricks | 1 | 20 | 1.36 |
| Jakkaphan Tangkuampien | 2 | 5 | 0.88 |
| Katherine Malan | 3 | 162 | 12.77 |