Publications

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PEER REVIEW PUBLICATIONS:

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.

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.

Harrington, M.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.

Harrington, M.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.

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 PRESENTATIONS & INVITED TALKS:

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gennari, 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.

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.