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WEA 2016: Applied Computer Sciences in Engineering pp 39–49Cite as

User Experiences in Virtual Reality Environments Navigation Based on Simple Knowledge Organization Systems

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During last decades, there has been concern on organizing the information in order to make it more understandable. Many organizations are focused on providing a better classification in such a way that information will be understood by humans and allow a rapid access to resources. This article is intended to present a proposal to strengthen the uses of virtual reality based on simple knowledge representation schemes, in order to provide an environment for navigation through concepts of a given knowledge area that will enable a virtual learning environment. Finally, outcomes from this survey are presented by TAM testing in order to perform validation mechanisms for the proposal.

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Authors are grateful to the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, for supporting these results through research projects call 11/2016, by CIDC Research Center.

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  1. Computer Science, University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain

    David Martin-Moncunill

  2. Faculty of Engineering, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá, Colombia

    Paulo Alonso Gaona-García, Kevin Gordillo-Orjuela & Carlos Enrique Montenegro-Marin

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  1. Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá, Colombia

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    Eduyn Ramiro López-Santana

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Martin-Moncunill, D., Gaona-García, P.A., Gordillo-Orjuela, K., Montenegro-Marin, C.E. (2016). User Experiences in Virtual Reality Environments Navigation Based on Simple Knowledge Organization Systems. In: Figueroa-García, J., López-Santana, E., Ferro-Escobar, R. (eds) Applied Computer Sciences in Engineering. WEA 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 657. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50880-1_4

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