Program
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