Click anywhere & add an idea
(“Teachers and Machines”, Cuban, 1985) (http://bit.ly/hSKRhP)

Nice summary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_blindness
This is taken from a project described here 
http://googleearthdesign.blogspot.com/2010/12/vgi-in-education-talk.html

I discuss VGI at length using this case study here
http://googleearthdesign.blogspot.com/2010/12/vgi-in-education-talk.html

The blogosphere discussion of 3D thematic maps
http://googleearthdesign.blogspot.com/2009/04/axis-on-3d-thematic-maps.html
Described best in the book by Krug ‘Don’t make me think!’ about web usability.  Not as a good a write up but more detail
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_aloud_protocol  

Martini glass in the video 
http://googleearthdesign.blogspot.com/2010/11/blog-break-and-infographics-in-media.html

Blog write up
http://googleearthdesign.blogspot.com/2009/09/tour-and-activity.html

Streetview in tours blogged
http://googleearthdesign.blogspot.com/2010/12/streetview-now-captured-by-tours.html

Not written up yet, 

an inspiration of mine was Mayer who has published lots of papers about usability tests on animations (to some extent, a tour is an animation)