Virtual Geography Research Articles

Development of Virtual Geography Laboratory to Improve Cognitive Learning Outcomes and Spatial Capabilities Social Sciences Education

This project aims to develop a website that functions as a virtual laboratory for studying geography topics that is suitable for use, as well as testing its effectiveness on cognitive learning outcomes and spatial abilities. The research uses the Borg and Gall development model, which is then summarized and divided into three main activities: introduction, development, and testing. Subject selection was based on the cluster random sampling technique. The subjects consisted of Class Learning outcome data was collected using questionnaires, interviews, pretests and posttest, analyzed using descriptive statistical tests and Mancova inferential statistics. Research Results: 1) the development of a geographic virtual laboratory is suitable for use according to material experts and received the "very good" category, while according to media experts it received the "good" category; 2) students gave a strong response to the implementation of the virtual geography laboratory; 3) there is a significant difference between initial abilities and cognitive learning outcomes and spatial abilities; and 4) there are no significant differences between two schools that implement virtual geography laboratories with cognitive learning outcomes and spatial abilities.

사회과교육의 가상지리답사를 위한 학습공간 개발 연구

Objectives The purpose of this study is to develop a learning environment for social studies education that incorporates drone mapping and metaverse technology to enhance the sense of immediacy in virtual geographic fieldwork.
 Methods To achieve this, the first step involved conducting a quantitative and qualitative analysis of previous studies related to virtual geography exploration to understand the research trends. Following that, the components necessary for the development of a metaverse learning environment were derived. Subsequently, a prototype for a learning space designed for virtual geography exploration was developed based on these identified components. Finally, a validation process involving field teachers was used to carry out modifications and enhancements on the developed prototype, resulting in the final product.
 Results According to the research findings, drone mapping facilitated the development of a metaverse space with higher qualitative standards compared to conventional 3D data. This enhancement increases the authenticity of virtual geographic fieldwork, augments opportunities for interaction, strengthens self-directed learning abilities required in future education, and provides avenues for integration into STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) curricula.
 Conclusions These results demonstrate that conventional virtual geographic fieldwork can no longer remain at the level of indirect geographical observation but can evolve into a distinctive teaching and learning approach by integrating with fourth industrial revolution technologies. Furthermore, learners can enhance their deep inquiry capabilities within metaverse spaces resembling the real world, connecting with local contexts for learning and thereby contributing to the uniqueness of social studies education.

The Influence of Implementing the Geography Virtual Laboratory (Geovlab) on Interest and Increasing Academic Achievement Abilities

Purpose: This research aims to examine the effect of implementing a virtual geography laboratory (Geovlab) on students’ interest and increasing academic achievement. Patients and methods: The type of research used is experimental research. The research was conducted at SMA Plus Al-Fatimah Bojonegoro, East Java, Indonesia. The subjects of this research were 60 students. The research instruments used to collect data were interest questionnaires and cognitive measurement tests. Data analysis was tested using percentages and paired sample t test statistics. Results: Based on the analysis of research results, it shows that there are students who have a high interest in using Geovlab and there is a significant average difference between pre-test and post-test in cognitive aspects of academic achievement. Conclusion: Geovlab allows students to learn geography interactively. They can explore geographic maps, simulations, and models that help them understand geographic concepts better than traditional textbook-only learning.

The Virtual Geography of Afrodiasporic Womanist Love: Black Women Critical Educators Collectively Cultivating Solidarity and (En)countering Loneliness Online

In this multimodal article, we respond to the pervasive erasure of Black women’s knowledge-making practices and pedagogies in academic literature writ large while illustrating the use of creative methods for making meaning of community, connection, sociality, and solidarity, in virtual or online adult learner education spaces. We begin by narrating how our collective of U.S.-based Black women comparative and international education scholar-practitioners lovingly banded together for a Study Abroad Program. We theorize the diasporic Blackness undergirding our womanist love of one another as a spatial, relational, corporeal, and political force helpful for cultivating critical community and affective solidarity in our virtual geographic context. Then, using kitchen-table talk as a reflexive method of inquiry, we probe the particularities of that Afrodiasporic womanist love—the energy cohering our collective in an online environment—as noun and verb: a source of sustenance, a reprieve from loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic, and a care-full comforting and healing practice. We locate our theorizing in the genealogy of Black feminist thought, and to interrogate how Afrodiasporic womanist love is shaped by and situated in time, space, and body(ies), we explore our geohistories and legacies. We conclude by reflecting on how, in addition to building solidarity, Afrodiasporic womanist love helped us form a supportive critical community online that provided sanctuary as we (re)conceptualized justice, freedom, and humanity in our individual and collective praxis vis-à-vis the intimacy, authenticity, and vulnerability demanded by this type of Black love.

Virtual ecological technology: Concepts, systems, and application perspectives.

Virtual ecological technology is a new technology that builds the foundation of a digital ecological system, simulates the process of ecological evolution, and establishes a global knowledge analysis system based on a unified spatio-temporal benchmark. It is a new direction for the interdisciplinary integration and development of eco-logy, geographic information science, computer science and other subjects towards modernization, informatization, and intelligence. Research, development, and application of virtual ecological technology is of great significance for the development of ecology as a discipline, ecosystem management, and regional sustainable development. Curren-tly, research on virtual ecological technology is still in its infancy and lacks a complete and clearly defined framework, making it difficult to support systematic iterative development and scientific analysis. In this paper, starting from the main theories and objectives of modern ecology, we summarized the main contents and technical requirements of virtual ecological construction, and proposed a key technical system of virtual ecology that integrated vir-tual geography and digital twin technology. From the perspective of application scenarios, we analyzed the application capabilities of virtual ecological technology in air pollution and energy analysis. Finally, we summarized the deve-lopment potential of virtual ecological technology in the digital construction of the ecological environment, intelligent computing, and realistic expression of different levels of ecological space resources transformation under the background of new generation of information technology, both at the local computing point breakthrough and the global technology point fusion aspects. This would enrich and advance the technical capabilities that support China's ecological space resource transformation.

Designing and improving a virtual learning environment in geography education

The geography in K-12 education requires students' abilities of imagination and exploration. The traditional teaching methods fail to provide multiple dimensions of the geography learning experience for students. The transformation of information and communication technologies (ICT) brings more potential for geography learning. This proposal aims to explore design principles for a virtual geography learning environment based on real teaching situations. The researcher will identify the pedagogical, social, and technical design principles from literature, and the design-based research will be the potential methods to design the virtual learning environment. Samples are secondary school students, and the study will experience several rounds to improve the design.

From real spaces to virtual spaces: The metaverse and decentralized cinema

Developments in computer and communication technologies, which constitute the starting point of concepts such as decentralization, virtuality, simulation, augmented reality and metaverse, have also brought new forms of expression and designs in art to the agenda. In addition to the decentralized data architecture and metaverse areas that emerged in parallel with the development of network technologies, applications that increase the user's interaction and beleaguered experience such as virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality have increased their effectiveness in this field. The metaverse spaces that emerge with the cooperation of software, art and architecture offer their users a more similar life simulation of natural life through augmented reality vehicles or screens. Here, users can perform new experiences for artistic production and consumption as well as daily life practices such as socialization and communication. Metaverse spaces, which include the design of a three-dimensional virtual universe that can be supported by augmented reality, are free from all the constraints of the real world as a cinematic plateau. It is seen as a great advantage that the real film set can create a cinematic work without expensive equipment such as cameras, lights, and sound away from all the negativities of the natural shooting conditions. The fact that the production, distribution and screening of cinema works can be realized within this field brings a new understanding of decentralized cinema to the agenda. Decentralized cinema, which has begun to rise in the expanding virtual geography of the metaverse virtual space with its advantages such as virtual characters and scenes and creative space fictions, is an art form worth examining. This study focuses on the possible future transformations of cinema in terms of production and representation in the context of the relationship of virtual and augmented reality technologies with developing metaverse areas. The emergence of a new cinematic ecology; The opportunities and obstacles it provides to producers are examined with the philosophical criticism method through concepts such as virtual and augmented reality, web 3.0, metaverse in terms of audience experiences it offers for screening. As a result of the study, it was concluded that the metaverse area has many advantages in terms of the production of cinema works, democratization of the production and distribution of works, digital privacy and security for metaverse artists, and recognition of ownership for digital works of art.

Computing Virtual Geography Possesses Seablite Local Assets

This study has computed the virtual geography of marine assets in terms of agricultural materials of seablite in order to proceed further as an economic plant. The computerized technique has been used to analyze the virtual survey of seablite in Samut Sakhon, Thailand. Computing and drawing software have primarily included GoodNotes, Google Earth, and Google Maps to locate marine assets. The subdistricts in Samut Sakhon have been discovered as locations of seablite local assets. A physical survey has been performed to confirm the places of marine assets identified by the virtual study. The data have revealed seven subdistricts harboring marine assets. Seablite origins have been local assets marked as red spots, and illustrative maps of virtual geography have been drawn. The verification has displayed that virtual and physical survey results have agreed. However, additional studies are required to create a practical illustration of local maritime assets and identify agricultural materials with the substances in each location in order to characterize economic plants and seablite smart farming.

Geographic information science in the era of geospatial big data: A cyberspace perspective

Geographic information science in the era of geospatial big data: A cyberspace perspective

Virtual user geography of library websites

The author generalizes the results of library user survey. The survey was held within the framework of the study “Webometric monitoring of libraries”. The study goal was to assess the virtual geography of library website users and to specify target audience. The user audience of 11 library websites was assessed by following criteria: geographical data (user location, probable user residence area); user demographic data (sex, age); loyalty indicators (bounce rate, visit depth, visit duration); website user desired actions (estimation of desired action conversion). Based on the findings, the author concludes that: library offline services impact website user geography; there is a close interdependence between library location and website traffic; users resident in the library region make the most loyal website users; women prevail in the library user audience. The target website user audience is identified; recommendations are offered for the further strategic development in the web-space. The study conclusions and recommendations would facilitate generated demanded content and efficient promotion of library information resources and services in the web-space.

Being on Country as Protest: Designing a Virtual Geography Fieldtrip Guided by Jindaola

The fieldtrip has long been a key component of the geography curriculum, described as a 'touchstone' for learning in, on and about place Learning on Country provides an opportunity to embody Indigenous knowledges and experience places and people in field classes However, such opportunities are increasingly under threat as the costs and risks of running field trips have risen, and more recently, faced challenges such as those presented by the COVID-19 pandemic In this paper, we describe the transformation of a third-year undergraduate geography field trip into a virtual field trip using online resources We reflect on the processes and challenges of doing so in ways that privilege and respect Aboriginal pedagogies and practices in educational design Drawing on the philosophies and frameworks of Jindaola, an Aboriginal way of embedding Indigenous knowledges into the curriculum, we show how the virtual field trip, as a form of non-placement work-integrated learning, can embed place-based experiential learning into online learning contexts This paper outlines how the design, articulation and practice of that process is grounded in Country, culture and customs

Discrete natural neighbour interpolation with uncertainty using cross-validation error-distance fields.

Interpolation techniques provide a method to convert point data of a geographic phenomenon into a continuous field estimate of that phenomenon, and have become a fundamental geocomputational technique of spatial and geographical analysts. Natural neighbour interpolation is one method of interpolation that has several useful properties: it is an exact interpolator, it creates a smooth surface free of any discontinuities, it is a local method, is spatially adaptive, requires no statistical assumptions, can be applied to small datasets, and is parameter free. However, as with any interpolation method, there will be uncertainty in how well the interpolated field values reflect actual phenomenon values. Using a method based on natural neighbour distance based rates of error calculated for data points via cross-validation, a cross-validation error-distance field can be produced to associate uncertainty with the interpolation. Virtual geography experiments demonstrate that given an appropriate number of data points and spatial-autocorrelation of the phenomenon being interpolated, the natural neighbour interpolation and cross-validation error-distance fields provide reliable estimates of value and error within the convex hull of the data points. While this method does not replace the need for analysts to use sound judgement in their interpolations, for those researchers for whom natural neighbour interpolation is the best interpolation option the method presented provides a way to assess the uncertainty associated with natural neighbour interpolations.

Being on Country as Protest: Designing a Virtual Geography Fieldtrip Guided by Jindaola

The fieldtrip has long been a key component of the geography curriculum, described as a ‘touchstone’ for learning in, on and about place. Learning on Country provides an opportunity to embody Indigenous knowledges and experience places and people in field classes. However, such opportunities are increasingly under threat as the costs and risks of running field trips have risen, and more recently, faced challenges such as those presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we describe the transformation of a third-year undergraduate geography field trip into a virtual field trip using online resources. We reflect on the processes and challenges of doing so in ways that privilege and respect Aboriginal pedagogies and practices in educational design. Drawing on the philosophies and frameworks of Jindaola, an Aboriginal way of embedding Indigenous knowledges into the curriculum, we show how the virtual field trip, as a form of non-placement work-integrated learning, can embed place-based experiential learning into online learning contexts. This paper outlines how the design, articulation and practice of that process is grounded in Country, culture and customs.

Zoom and Place: Video Conferencing and Virtual Geography

Zoom and Place: Video Conferencing and Virtual Geography

A UAV-based panoramic oblique photogrammetry (POP) approach using spherical projection

Oblique photogrammetry is an emerging technology in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based low-altitude remote sensing, and oblique digital cameras are widely used for data acquisition. Moreover, panoramic cameras are becoming popular with their capacities of comprehensive range of imaging compared with original oblique cameras, a spherical panorama can be transformed to several perspective images which are similar to normal oblique images. In this paper, a UAV-based panoramic oblique photogrammetry (POP) approach is proposed to achieve georeferenced panoramic images and real 3D models together by using panorama image projection algorithms. First, a UAV-based panoramic imaging system with six fish-eye cameras is presented to obtain multiangle and large-field-of-view images to generate two-dimensional (2D) spherical panorama images. Second, two panorama image projection models from a 2D panorama to perspectives are proposed to regenerate small distortion images toward different directions as traditional oblique photogrammetry images. Third, aerial triangulation, dense matching and three-dimensional (3D) modeling are presented with these small distortion images to achieve panoramic oblique photogrammetry processing. Two real scenes in the city of Wuhan are taken to verify the feasibility and precision of the proposed approach. Experimental results show that the panoramic oblique photogrammetry for 3D modeling can achieve cm-level accuracy. The proposed approach can obtain aerial panoramas and georeferenced 3D models together, which can be an effective method for virtual geography environment visualization.

Woman entrepreneurs in Jember : effect of social capital and virtual geography

Women since the paradigm change in woman in development no longer plays a role in the domestic sector but also in the public sector. One public sector that attracts women to contribute more to economic development is to become woman entrepreneur by opening various trading businesses. The purpose of this study was to analyze social capital and virtual geography in success of business women entrepreneurs. Research methods using a qualitative approach with a focus on phenomenology. The results of the study revealed that the success of woman entrepeneurs who are MSME categories in their business cannot be separated from social capital like trusts, networks and organizations. The conclusion is that the use of social capital by woman entrepreneurs contributes to the sustainability of the business being developed. Recommendations need to be supported by government regulations to optimize social capital for women entrepreneurs.

From the Geography of Physical Space to the Geography of Virtual Space: Current and Future Research of the Information and Communication Geography and Virtual Geography

From the Geography of Physical Space to the Geography of Virtual Space: Current and Future Research of the Information and Communication Geography and Virtual Geography

Can Human Move Mountains? Search in Virtual Geography (Scientific Theory Needs to Conduct Field Experiments in Different Environments)

Can Human Move Mountains? Search in Virtual Geography (Scientific Theory Needs to Conduct Field Experiments in Different Environments)

Using virtual worlds to investigate perceived affordances on learned navigation and objective location performance

ABSTRACTNavigation in virtual worlds is vital for users to move about effectively, complete objectives, and interact with one another and the environment. The ability to accurately orient oneself within a virtual world is essential for successful engagement in video games, simulations and learning environments. This study investigated the effects of perceived affordances on learned navigation and objective location performance within a virtual world. We hypothesized that such perceived affordances impede the learning of virtual geography by fostering reliance on “artificial” cues instead of real space navigation techniques such as the observation of landmarks, spatial orientation, sense of time and distance travelled. The presence of perceived affordances was not significant in predicting retention accuracy. However, the presence of perceived affordances was a significant predictor of objective location performance.

A conceptual model on the process of innovation diffusion through a historical review of the United States Armed Forces and their bowl games

Due to the interrelated social systems prominent within the organization of sport products and services, the sport industry represents an ideal setting for studying innovation diffusion. This research endeavor extends previous work based on Rogers’ (2003) Diffusion of Innovation Theory and uses an historical research approach as a means to understand what happens beyond the initial point of adoption with respect to the total process of innovation diffusion. Within, the authors offer a number of implications for current managers and scholars of sport through applied history. Historical analysis exploits the United States Armed Forces use of American football games from 1942 through 1967 to propose a nine-point conception model on innovation diffusion. In the model, we emphasize the interaction/synergy of: communication systems; time; and social systems. Moreover, the authors discuss the impact of physical and virtual geography and the interplay between degrees of seriousness, availability of resources, isomorphism, and technology across each stage of the process to emphasize their interactions within subsequent stages as to whether the diffusion process continues. Late adopters can extend the diffusion process through re-invention to offer a more complete theoretical model of the total process of innovation diffusion.