3D Multi User Learning Environment Management - An Exploratory Study on Student Engagement with the Learning Environment
Indika N. Perera, Colin Allison, Alan Miller · InTech eBooks · 2012
In recent years, a large amount of data has been generated and recorded in various fields according to the advances of computer simulation, sensor network, and database technologies. However, it is generally difficult to find valuable information or knowledge from the huge data. Therefore, the establishment of a methodology to utilize these data effectively is an important issue. Though data mining is one of the methods to solve such a problem, it is difficult for the user to understand the process of mining data and to evaluate the result intuitively, because the data is processed in the computer (Kantardzie, 2002). On the other hand, the visualization technique can be used effectively to represent the data so that the user can understand it intuitively. This study focuses on the method of visual data mining in which the user performs the data mining by visualizing the data (Wong, 1999) (Keim, 2002).