Checklist for Evaluating VW Sims

Designing a Checklist for Evaluating Virtual World Sims

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Lisa JackaSouthern Cross University, [email protected]: lis Ruby

Questions

What is a Virtual World Sim?and

Why design a Checklist to Evaluate them?

Well……………

Questions

• Could a VW sim be evaluated using the same criteria for a website?

• Needed to define a VW.– Typologies and taxonomies

• Why are some students and staff reluctant to visit and use VW sims?– Usefulness and usability

CEVWS

• Main headings transfer well – Initial Impression– Authority– Accuracy– Attributes– Accessibility– Pedagogy

CEVWSDefining factors in a VW:•Persistence of in-world environment.•A shared space allowing multiple users to participate simultaneously.•Virtual embodiment in the form of an avatar (a personisable 3-D representation of the self).•Interactions that occur between users and objects in a 3-D environment.•An immediacy of action such that interactions occur in real time.•Similarities to the real world such as topography, movement and physics that provide the illusion of being there.

– Smart, Cascio and Paffendorf’s Metaverse 2007 Roadmap

Not so much about the getting of information more about the experience.