Monthly Archives: January 2008
Second Life in Space
International Spaceflight Museum The International Spaceflight Museum (ISM) is a Second Life location where they demonstrate and teach about space flight. They often host real-life events and exhibits about space flight, space craft, and rockets. This area is located on Spaceport Alpha and Spaceport Bravo in Second Life’s adult grid. This area is maintained by [...]
User Prior Knowledge and the Affect of Technology
Once Again, My Graduate Students My graduate students are an absolute hoot and so enjoyable to teach. They have proven to me why I want to get my Ph.D. to do research, teach, and work with graduate students. I admire these folks so much. They are figuring out things about complicated learning and psychological theories [...]
HCI Guidelines and Principles
Defining Design Guidelines Good guidelines for designing web sites and multimedia include using up to 3 colors only, use only 2 or 3 fonts with up to 4 sizes, reducing cognitive load by not overwhelming the user with too much on one page, keeping the download size to a minimum, minimize distracting elements, have consistency [...]