Open AccessPitfalls in 3-D Virtual Worlds Health Project Evaluations: The Trap of Drug-trial-style Media Comparative Studies
Author(s) -
Maged N. Kamel Boulos,
Inocencio Maramba
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
journal of virtual worlds research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1941-8477
DOI - 10.4101/jvwr.v2i2.669
Subject(s) - modalities , trap (plumbing) , style (visual arts) , metaverse , computer science , world wide web , human–computer interaction , sociology , virtual reality , art , engineering , visual arts , social science , environmental engineering
This 'think-piece' proposes to avoid evaluation trials comparing 3-D virtual worlds and the flat Web, and to instead investigate and evaluate the two modalities as different but complementary and synergistic media rather than as competing media trying to replace one another.