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Avatar Training - A Humanistic And Creativity Driven Approach, Nicole M.T. Charest
Avatar Training - A Humanistic And Creativity Driven Approach, Nicole M.T. Charest
Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects
Avatar Training
A Humanistic and Creativity Driven Approach
This project is about the development of a program prototype for a humanistic and creativity driven approach to avatar training to be delivered in Second Life™ (SL). Specifically, the program aims at developing the skills necessary to make a presentation in, and to safely explore, SL. It was proposed to create a unique learning framework that takes into account the targeted clientele, adult professionals with no or limited experience with SL, the sensibilities of 3D immersive social virtual environment, the avatar training needs, and the possibility to weave in creativity skills practice. …