Publications
PEER REVIEW JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCES:
Harrington, M.C.R. (2008-under review). Spatial cognitive ecologies: An empirical comparison of situational behavior in real and virtual reality field trips and evidence of transfer.
Harrington, M.C.R. (2007-under review). Spatial cognitive ecologies: An ethnographic comparison of situational teaching and learning, emotion and creativity in real and virtual field trips.
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. Author's PDF
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. Author's PDF
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & INVITED TALKS:
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. Poster
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 USA. Presentation
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 USA. Presentation
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 USA.
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, USA.
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. Abstract
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, USA.
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, USA.
