07.30 am – Breakfast & Coffee (donuts, bagels, muffins)

 

08.55 am – Welcome

 

09.00 am – Keynote: Julia Plummer

Title: Curricular design for spatial thinking: Embedding support for spatially-complex phenomena in K-12 astronomy education

 

10.00 am Short Coffee Break

 

10.25 am Talks until noon

Investigating the Reciprocal Relation between GIScience Education and Spatial Thinking

Maria Brucato, Alina Nazareth, & Nora Newcombe

Temple University

 

Going through the Motions: Investigating Strategies for Spatial Integration of a Small-Scale Array

Mia Velazquez, Corinne Holmes, and Nora Newcombe

Temple University

 

User Confidence in Wayfinding Using Navigation Systems

Yue Qin

University of Pittsburgh

 

Walking and Learning in a Large-Scale Mediated Space: The impacts of viewpoint transition on spatial learning in virtual reality

Jiayan Zhao

The Pennsylvania State University

 

 

11.45 pm Lunch

01.30 pm Keynote: Amy Shelton

Title: Exploring Spatial Learning Profiles Using Virtual Environments

 

02.30 Talk

Digital Design and Spatial Comprehension: The visual, corporeal, and tactile in embodied interaction

Vernelle Noel, Danielle Oprean

The Pennsylvania State University

 

03.00 pm Coffee Break

 

03.30 pm Talks

Spaces for Interfaces: Virtual Reality, Spatial Cognition, and Data Visualization

Mark Simpson

The Pennsylvania State University

 

Immersive applications for informal and interactive learning for earth science

Arif Masrur

The Pennsylvania State University

 

Growing Trees in a Greenhouse

Jiawei Huang

The Pennsylvania Sate University

 

Enhancing Second Language Vocabulary Learning with Virtual Reality

Jennifer Legault, Jiayan Zhao, Alexander Klippel, & Ping Li

The Pennsylvania State University

 

04.30 pm Keynote: Bobby Bodenheimer

Title: Locomotion and Navigation in Large Immersive Virtual Environments