Publications

PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS, CONFERENCES & DISSERTATION PUBLICATIONS:

 

1) Harrington, Maria, C. R. (2011). The Virtual Trillium Trail and the Empirical Effects of Freedom and Fidelity on Discovery-based Learning. Virtual Reality, Springer

2) Harrington, Maria, C. R. (2010). Empirical evidence of priming, transfer, reinforcement, and learning in the Real and Virtual Trillium Trails, Journal of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 28 Jul. 2010. IEEE computer Society Digital Library. <http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TLT.2010.20>

3) Harrington, Maria C.R. (2009). Meta-ontologies for learning in virtual and augmented realities. ACM-SIGCHI IDC09 The 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children Workshop on Children and Mobile Technology: Interface Development for Mobile Touch Devices . June3-5, 2009. Como, Italy.

4) Harrington, Maria, C. R. (2009). An ethnographic comparison of real and virtual reality field trips to Trillium Trail: The salamander find as a Salient Event. In Freier, N.G. & Kahn, P.H. (Eds.), Children, Youth and Environments: Special Issue on Children in Technological Environments, 19 (1): [page-page]. http://www.colorado.edu/journals/cye.

5) Harrington, Maria, C. R. (2008). Simulated Ecological Environments for Education (SEEE): A Tripartite Model Framework of HCI Design Parameters for Situational Learning in Virtual Environments. Dissertation Abstracts International. July 17,2008. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.

6) Harrington, M.C.R. (2008). A demonstration of virtual trillium trail, a simulation of a fourth grade field trip to a wildflower reserve for ecology education. Open Learning Interplay Symposium 2008. Demos and poster session. March 10-13, 2008. CMU, Pittsburgh, PA USA.

7) Harrington, Maria, C. R. (2006). Situational learning in real and virtual space: Lessons learned and future directions. ACM SIGGRAPH’06. July 30-August 3, 2006 Boston, MA, USA. ACM SIGGRAPH

8) Harrington, M.C.R. (2006). Trees of life: Models of children's creative processes. ACM DIS’06 Doctoral Consortium. June 28, 2006 State College, PA, USA. Conference Proceedings ACM CHI DIS

9) Harrington, M. (2005). Virtual beechwood: Simulated ecological environments for education. Conference on Spatial Information Theory’05. Doctoral Consortium Abstracts. September 14-18, 2005 Ellicottville, New York, USA.

10) G ennari, J., Harrington, M., Hughes, S., Manojlovich, M. and Spring, M. (2003). Preparatory observations on ubiquitous knowledge environments: The cyberinfrastructure information ether. NSF Post Digital Library Futures Workshop. Chatham, MA, USA.

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & INVITED TALKS:

 

11) Harrington, Maria, C. R. (2010). Reality Matters in Virtual Reality for Learning Sciences Research: The Virtual Trillium Trail Empirical Data and Future fMRI Studies. University of Pittsburgh, UPMC, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA. http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=700

12) Harrington, M.C.R. (2009). The Virtual Trillium Trail: An Educationally Effective Simulation for Ecology Education. The Pennsylvania Association of Environmental Educators 2009 Conference. March 19 - 21, 2009. Entriken, PA.

13) Harrington, M.C.R. (2008). The Virtual Trillium Trail: The value of Freedom and Fidelity in the child-computer-environment interface. Carnegie Mellon Human-Computer Interaction Institute Seminar Series. September 17, 2008. CMU, Pittsburgh, PA.

14) Harrington, M.C.R. (2008). Simulated Ecological Environments for Education: Past and future realities. November 7, 2008. Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PA.

15) Harrington, M.C.R. (2008). Tips and tricks of building Simulated Ecological Environments for Education: User centered design, activity analysis, prototyping, and techniques. Carnegie Mellon Entertainment Technology Center. October 15, 2008. CMU, Pittsburgh, PA.

16) Harrington, M.C.R. (2008). The Virtual Trillium Trail: What if you could fly over your favorite park, and explore the ecosystem from any vantage point that you wished? July 22, 2008. Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve, Fox Chapel PA.

17) Harrington, M.C.R. (2008). A demonstration of Virtual Trillium Trail, a simulation of a fourth grade field trip to the Trillium Trail Wildflower Reserve. The Pennsylvania Association of Environmental Educators 2008 Conference. February 29 and March 1, 2008. Ligonier, PA.

18) Harrington, M.C.R. (2008). The poetics of games: Art, poetry and storytelling in modern game design. The Art Institute of Pittsburgh. January 14, 2008 Pittsburgh, PA.

19) Harrington, M.C.R. (2007). Virtual Trillium Trail and opportunities for education in metaverses and virtual environments. Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, Phipps Education Committee. November 19, 2007 Pittsburgh, PA.

20) Harrington, M.C.R. (2007). Generating high fidelity, 3D computer graphic models from transects and plot population data for Trillium Trail. University of Pittsburgh, Department of Biological Sciences: E&E Seminar. October 24, 2007. Pittsburgh, PA.

TECHNICAL REPORTS:
Harrington, M.C.R. (2006) Simulated Ecological Environments for Education (SEEE): A Tripartite Model Framework of HCI design parameters for situational learning in virtual environments. Unpublished Dissertation Proposal, May 2006. School of Information Sciences, Department of Information Sciences and Telecommunications. University of Pittsburgh, PA.

Harrington, M.C.R. (2005) Simulated Ecological Environments for Education (SEEE). Unpublished State of the Art Literature Review Component of the Comprehensive Exam, August 2005. School of Information Sciences, Department of Information Sciences and Telecommunications. University of Pittsburgh, PA.