TY - JOUR
T1 - Opportunities and challenges in advanced communication technologies in the environment
T2 - a case of forest management communications
AU - Tsakakis, Elena
AU - Gupta, Angela
AU - Schneider, Ingrid E.
AU - Donovan, Bobbi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Advanced information communication technologies (ICT) offer significant benefits to applied communications, including potential cost reductions, service improvements, and expanded natural resource education in an era of ever-decreasing budgets. Limited guidance exists about how to design and implement virtual reality and augmented reality experiences in environmental spaces but clearly it takes time, expertise, equipment, and iterative feedback with experts and users. Our 18-month collaborative development process used best practices, stakeholder involvement, and multimedia teams to create and test augmented reality and virtual reality visitor education about forest management. Based on this effort, we share challenges, opportunities, and ideas to implement ICT in applied environmental education.
AB - Advanced information communication technologies (ICT) offer significant benefits to applied communications, including potential cost reductions, service improvements, and expanded natural resource education in an era of ever-decreasing budgets. Limited guidance exists about how to design and implement virtual reality and augmented reality experiences in environmental spaces but clearly it takes time, expertise, equipment, and iterative feedback with experts and users. Our 18-month collaborative development process used best practices, stakeholder involvement, and multimedia teams to create and test augmented reality and virtual reality visitor education about forest management. Based on this effort, we share challenges, opportunities, and ideas to implement ICT in applied environmental education.
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U2 - 10.1080/1533015X.2023.2282457
DO - 10.1080/1533015X.2023.2282457
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85180189492
SN - 1533-015X
VL - 23
SP - 24
EP - 37
JO - Applied Environmental Education and Communication
JF - Applied Environmental Education and Communication
IS - 1-2
ER -