About the VITAL Lab
A new version of Virtual Boat for Environmental Education (VBEE) is released for 2012 winter quarter BooKS workshop. The latest release can be found here.
This released version provides teachers and students with “Fishkill” scenario and “Geocaching” scenario to support relevant lasson plans.
Lesson plans’ details can be found here.
C. Liu, Q. Zhu, K. A. Holroyd and E. K. Seng, “Status and trends of mobile-health applications for iOS devices: A developer’s perspective,” J. Syst. Software, vol. 84, pp. 2022-2033, 11, 2011. (link)
This paper was one of the most downloaded paper in JSS from previous three months, verified on Feb 27, 2012. It is also the 12th paper in the top 25 hottest articles in 2011 full year.
Elsevire, “Top 25 Hottest Articles,” URL:http://top25.sciencedirect.com/journal/01641212/, Accessed: 2012-03-26, (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/66SEGhFAg) .
Virtual Boat Screenshots 02/20/12
What’s new in this version
- Initial universal release (only iPad 2 is officially supported)
- Includes all the capabilities of the PC version (including character customization and virtual boat features)
- Uses virtual joystick and touch controls for player and boat navigation
A new version of Virtual Boat for Environmental Education (VBEE) is released. The latest release can be found here.
What’s new in this version
- Free navigation: you can test water qualities everywhere.
- New GUI: Stable, simple, uniformed, and runs well in different machines with different resolutions, (high to low resolutions).
- Only one objective icon (click it to get detailed information), no more complex objective list.
- Only show mini map in navigation mode.
- New data diagram with dynamic data.
- Soundclips for interesting locations (not required to test locations following an order any more).
- Note: the size is about 48MB, thus it may take a few minutes to load the game at the first time.
A new version of Virtual Boat for Environmental Education (VBEE) is released. The latest release can be found here.
What’s new in this version
- Add: Functions for calculating pH value everywhere in real-time.
- Add: Add a new data diagram, to test this new diagram, players have to click the laptop before driving to the fish kill.
- Add: An animation of a deer eating on a small island on the right hand side of the fish kill.
- Improve: New boat
- Improve: New GUI style
- Fix: Change all “floating fish” to “fish kill”
A new version of Virtual Boat for Environmental Education (VBEE) is released. The latest release can be found here.
What’s new in this version
- Add: Units for all water quality data in all data diagrams
- Improve: Remove completed objectives from objective list (based on suggestions from teachers in fall 2011 PD)
- Fix: Change Nitrate value from mg/l to % saturation
- Fix: Delete useless textures
- Fix: “play now” button is for single play mode now
A new version of Virtual Boat for Environmental Education (VBEE) is released. The latest release can be found here.
Virtual Boat Ohio River Map
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- In-game map with structures
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- In-game map without structures, indicating the surveying spots
