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• What does the acronym MUVEES mean?
MUVEES is the acronym for Multi-user Virtual Environment Experiential
Simulator. The MUVEES simulates a town from the 1880's called River
City.
• Can you describe the goal of the project?
The goal of this MUVEES is to build an engaging multi-user virtual
environment that will teach science concepts in a way that draws
on curiosity and play. The environment, also known as River City,
is enriched with digitized historical museum artifacts to enhance
middle school students' motivation and learning about science and
to study its impact on society.
• What is there to do in River City?
Students/individuals represented as avatars are on an adventure
to figure out the mystery behind the health concerns taking place
in River City. Smithsonian photographs depict the affluence and
poverty of the town and evoke concern about the degrading health
of River City's citizens. Throughout the town, water stations are
discovered that begin to spell out this story and provide valuable
data about the quality of water there. Non-player characters/avatars
(NPCs) share important information to aid avatars in their quests.
• What operating system can I use?
Presently, MUVEES has run successfully with the following PC operating
systems: Windows 95, 98, NT, and XP.
• What are the minimum system requirements?
MUVEES is designed to run on the current generation of PCs that
would typically be purchased by a school system from a major manufacturer.
MUVEES runs well on machines with 450MHz and faster processors,
64MB (128MB recommended) of RAM, and approximately 25MB of free
hard disk space. The machine must be connected to the internet,
either via a network or a dial-up modem, and must have a graphics
card.
The computer must have these applications installed:
1) Microsoft Internet Explorer [Note that this does not have to
be the default browser on the machine, but it must be installed.
Some school systems have set Netscape as their default browser and
removed Internet Explorer from machines. In these cases, Internet
Explorer will have to be reinstalled.
2) DirectX
• I am having difficulties with viewing portions
of this web site. What should I do?
If for any reason, you are having difficulty accessing any
portion of this web site, please report problems to the web site
curator, Brian Nelson.
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