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Figure 6.21
Detail of the Temperance and General building, situated at the north-east corner of
the study area
Landmark recall was best for those groups who undertook the tour, and worst for the group
with little local knowledge and no tour. Candidates indicated that all landmark buildings
must remain in the model.
6.7.4 Heritage model
Initial impressions of the model indicate that it works effectively using the combination of
Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser and the The BitNet Management VRML browser plug-
in. Whilst odd initially, the black and white model allows the city buildings to be adequately
visualized. Buildings still standing are easily recognized and their 'rebuilt' neighbours provide
information that was hitherto unavailable in a composite model. As can be seen in Figure
6.21, some of the building images are still to be sourced. As they are found, they will be
processed and subsequently added to the model. However, the final verdict about whether
the model 'works' needs to be received after the product is evaluated. This will ask users two
questions - stage 1 of the evaluation process will ask 'is it usable?' and stage 2 will ask 'Is it
useful?'
6.8 Further development work
Work continues on this project and a three-dimensional map shop VRML interface
(Cartwright, 2006b), providing links to the surrogate travel media. In the completed pro-
totype the information provided to the user was designed to contain the same information
as that in the
Townsville GeoKnowledge
product, but delivered via a VRML-built interface.
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