Design and evaluation of a flexible travel training environment for use in a supported employment setting

This article describes the user centred design and development of a virtual environment (VE) to support the training of people with learning disabilities to travel independently. Three separate implementations were built on top of an initial design. Two of these environments implemented intelligent agents to scaffold learners using virtual environments; the third took stakeholder experiences to redesign the initial environment in an attempt to improve its utility.

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