From: owner-3dui@hitl.washington.edu on behalf of Jerry Isdale
[isdale@hrl.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 1:08 PM
To: 3D UI list
Subject: Re: Fwd: Search for papers on 3d hmd modelers

The vrpsychology list has had quite a few discussions on topics similar to
this.
There are several psych departments around the US using VR now both for
treatments
and for research studies into perception and cognition.

Skip Rizzo of USC is the moderator of the list - arizzo@rcf.usc.edu
Skip has done some work with spatial abilities, in particular mental
rotations.
One of these studies refutes the idea that men and women have inherently
different rotation abilities.
He found that after a short bit of practice in VR both men and women
performed equally well on standard tests.


> I want to publish in an educational oriented journal and maybe some of
> you know papers with good evaluation studies proving that VR helps to
> improve spatial abilities. I've found one from HITL by Osberg (1997).
>
> It would be interesting to know which spatial abilities (they are
> usually splitted in 5 components spatial perception, spatial
> visualization, mental rotations, spatial relations and spatial
> orientation) are especially trained in VR and if all of them can be
> improved and if there are the same effects of VR on men and women (there
> are sex related differences in spatial abilities).

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