Uncharted Research
Working Through Synthetic Worlds

Uncharted contributed the following chapters to Working Through Synthetic Worlds:

The Cognitive Playground: Fostering Critical and Creative Thinking with Synthetic Worlds: This chapter explores the potential of synthetic worlds to help individuals learn and practice higher order thinking skills including critical and creative thinking. Such skills are difficult to teach in traditional educational settings and are rarely addressed in common simulation-based training programs.

Synthetic Worlds and Financial Services: Collaborative interactions and transactions among traders, portfolio managers and risk managers can be transformed with synthetic worlds. It is easy to anticipate that by 2025, the reports, analyses and projections from financial industry participants exist in a shared workspace for dissemination and collaboration that is flexible, adaptable and with high visualization capabilities