immersive documentation: training and education in 3d spaces
DESCRIPTION
Presented at DocTrain East 2007 by Sarah Robbins -- Think about how much your company spends on travel, printed materials, and coordination for training. Think about how much your company has spent on illustrations, videos, CDs and other media for documentation. Now imagine if you could replace all those costs with a much more effective and engaging training and documentation solution. Using virtual worlds such as Second Life and Multiverse, training can become a vibrant, exciting, hands on experiences without travel costs or facility rentals. Documentation can be augmented with huge scale models of products, interactive trouble shooting, or social event where users share their problems and experiences all easily facilitated in a virtual environment. This session will provide an introduction to virtual spaces and examples of successful projects. Participants will be provided with instructions for accessing examples and trying out the virtual spaces for themselves.TRANSCRIPT
Immersive Documentation: Training and Education in 3D Spaces
Sarah “Intellagirl” RobbinsMedia Sauce
DocTrain East 2007
What does training look like now?
I’d rather have a root
canal
Problems with Training
Boring!
Travel
No Collaboration/No Community
Pardon the Detour
Sarnoff’s Law
Metcalf’s Law
Reed’s Law
Improvements to Training
•More Interactive
•More Engaging
•More Collaborative
•Less Stressful
•Less Expensive
Solution: Training in a Virtual World
MultiUserVirtualEnvironments
Mechanics
Form
Examples
Office 2007!Now with
even uglier charts!
Chat
Instant Messaging
Inventory
FriendsList
MiniMap
Motion Controls
Camera Controls
Building ToolsChat Window
MediaControls
Simulation Training
Interactive Documentation
Training as an Event
Sarah “Intellagirl” [email protected]
AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Skype: Intellagirl
Intellagirl.comUbernoggin.com