The Effects of Navigation Assistance on Spatial Learning and Performance in a 3D Game
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Abstract
Navigation in 3D game environments is often difficult for novices, who may get lost and be unable to reach game objectives. Many games provide navigation assistance (e.g., mini-maps, directional markers, or glowing trails); however, there is a risk that players will become reliant on an aid and fail to develop a mental model of the map. To investigate, we carried out two online studies in which people carried out training tasks with varying navigation assistance. After training, they navigated the map with assistance turned off. In both studies, we found that assistance improved training performance, but found no harmful effect of assistance on performance after it was removed, even when comparing between those who received glowing trails to follow and those who received no assistance. We show that navigation assistance in 3D games is effective, and that it does not necessarily harm development of a novice's spatial learning.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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