Hypermedia and cognition: designing for comprehension
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CHI '95 Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
What's Real About Virtual Reality?
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
MINERVA: Multimedia on the INtERnet for Virtual Arts
ICMCS '99 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems - Volume 2
Virtual Exhibitions as a Collection Environment of Cultural Events
ICMCS '99 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems - Volume 2
ICMCS '99 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems - Volume 2
The Matthew System for Creating Virtual Museums
ICMCS '99 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems - Volume 2
Towards the Virtual Internet Gallery
ICMCS '99 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems - Volume 2
Usability, Aesthetics, and Efficiency: An Evaluation in a Multimedia Environment
ICMCS '99 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems - Volume 2
Putting Usable Intelligence into Multimedia Applications
ICMCS '99 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems - Volume 2
Hypermedia, the Web and Usability Issues
ICMCS '99 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems - Volume 2
Picture the space: three concepts for management and presentation of personal digital photographs
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the NZ Chapter of the ACM's Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction
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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.