A users guide

The aim of this project is to offer opportunity to tutor and develop ones spatial ability through the use of interactive imagery. This web based tutorial system has being curtailed in size and it is during the eventual production of a CD-ROM version that the tutorials and tests may be expanded to become more thorough. It is hoped that within these pages the user is afforded sufficient opportunity to begin tutoring their spatial brain in the five dominant sub-areas of this intelligence form.

Links to each of the five sub-factors of spatial intelligence are available and from each of these an opportunity to see animated examples which characterise the mental activity associated with each particular sub-factor.

From here you may jump to the testing of a sub-factor, although it is recommended that you first view the brief tutorial section so that you may gain an insight into each spatial skill in practical terms. Here you may further accustom your spatial brain to the mental procedure required, by practising within an interactive environment.

Each of the test areas allows for testing on three levels, beginner, intermediate, and experienced. The first of these caters for the inexperienced visualiser, who perhaps has no technical/mechanical drawing experience and who feels the tutorial exercises to be reasonably challenging. The intermediate level carries on from this while the experienced level is recommended for anyone who has studied technical / mechanical drawing previously.

Once in the tutorial section progression is straight forward - simply click upon the desired image in order to make a selection. Depending on your answer you will either be prompted to try again or given confirmation of the correct answer along with an animated solution and in some instances a virtual environment within which you can physically manipulate the test objects. (Note: to use this feature you will need a VRML browser available at www.intervista.com.)