The Impact of Three Dimensional Immersive Virtual Environments on Modern Pedagogy

三维沉浸式虚拟环境对现代教育学的影响

• 批准号: 9722906
• 负责人: Thomas Furness
• 金额: $ 3.9万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-05-15 至 1997-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9722906&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Impact; Three; Dimensional; Immersive; Virtual

Our research at the University of Washington's Human Interface Technology Laboratory (HIT Lab) indicates that three dimensional immersive virtual environments such as virtual reality may be able to help students understand concepts and rules in complex content domains better than traditional educational delivery methods. The main goal for this project will be develop a research program to fully explore and test hypotheses associated with these observations. In order to accomplish this goal we propose to host a two-day meeting of 12 to 15 content specialists, educators, education technology specialist and cognitive scientists in Seattle, Washington, during March 1997. This workshop will focus on the teaching and learning of complex science content. In this regard, we have selected global warming phoenomenon as the test content area to analyze because of its complexity and its relevance to middle and high school science curriculum. Expected workshop results include: 1) recommendations on the direction of virtual reality (VR) research in education; 2) key questions and metrics to assess the goodness of immersive 3D interactive virtual environments relative to more traditional methods; 3) determination of the curriculum topics wherein 3D, interfaces and interactivity may have the greatest impact on learning; 4) organization of a core group of interdisciplinary researchers who will be available to advise and collaborate on research projects of interest. We plan to disseminate the results of the workshop via published reports and via a WWW site. We feel that the research agenda that we develop will be useful to the National Science Foundation (NSF) and other government agencies in helping to establish priorities in vestments to deploy advanced technologies in the classroom. In addition, we anticipate that this workshop will serve as a catalyst for the research community to develop into the difficult issues such as the cost versus benefits of advanced virtual interfaces versus currently available lower-cost alternatives.

我们在华盛顿大学人机界面技术实验室（HIT实验室）的研究表明，三维沉浸式虚拟环境（如虚拟现实）可能能够帮助学生理解复杂内容领域中的概念和规则，而不是传统的教育交付方法。 该项目的主要目标是开发一个研究计划，以充分探索和测试与这些观察相关的假设。 为了实现这一目标，我们提议于1997年3月在华盛顿的西雅图主办一次为期两天的会议，由12至15名内容专家、教育工作者、教育技术专家和认知科学家参加。本次研讨会将侧重于复杂科学内容的教学和学习。在这方面，我们选择了全球变暖现象作为测试内容领域进行分析，因为它的复杂性和它的相关性，初中和高中科学课程。 讲习班的预期成果包括：1）关于教育中虚拟现实（VR）研究方向的建议; 2）评估沉浸式3D交互式虚拟环境相对于传统方法的优点的关键问题和指标; 3）确定课程主题，其中3D，界面和交互性可能对学习产生最大影响; 4）组织一个跨学科研究人员的核心小组，他们将为感兴趣的研究项目提供咨询和合作。我们计划通过已发表的报告和万维网网址传播讲习班的成果。 我们认为，我们制定的研究议程将有助于美国国家科学基金会（NSF）和其他政府机构帮助建立在vehicle部署先进技术在课堂上的优先事项。此外，我们预计，本次研讨会将作为一个催化剂，为研究界发展到困难的问题，如先进的虚拟接口与目前可用的低成本替代品的成本与效益。