Interactive Virtual Environments for Science and Engineering Education

科学与工程教育的交互式虚拟环境

• 批准号: 0127326
• 负责人: Doug Bowman
• 金额: $ 7.48万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-06-01 至 2003-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0127326&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Interactive; Virtual; Environments; Science; Engineering

Interdisciplinary (99)This project is developing modules within an immersive virtual environment (VE) in order to examine whether or not such environments provide an effective venue for education. The environment being developed is based upon four principles. First, a high level of interactivity is necessary to allow students opportunities for active learning. Second, VE technology is used as a supplement to other methods of learning. Third, the environment contains many types of information and presents links between them. Finally, the 3D visualization realistically portrays information that is abstract or normally not visible in the physical world. The modules being developed are in structural engineering, computer networks, and computer graphics and we are integrating them into the curriculum in order to evaluate their effectiveness. The results of this work include a set of well-tested educational VE applications, guidelines for designing educational VEs, and principles for deciding when a VE is an appropriate choice for an educational goal and it is intended to provide a real and substantial improvement to the learning environments of many students as well as innovative VE research.

跨学科（99）本项目正在开发沉浸式虚拟环境（VE）中的模块，以检查这种环境是否为教育提供了有效的场所。开发的环境基于四个原则。首先，高度的互动性是必要的，让学生有机会主动学习。第二，VE技术被用作其他学习方法的补充。第三，环境包含许多类型的信息，并呈现它们之间的联系。最后，3D可视化逼真地描绘了在物理世界中抽象或通常不可见的信息。正在开发的模块是在结构工程，计算机网络和计算机图形学，我们正在将它们整合到课程，以评估其有效性。这项工作的结果包括一套行之有效的教育VE应用程序，指导方针设计教育VE，并决定当VE是一个适当的选择的教育目标的原则，它的目的是提供一个真实的和大量的改善许多学生的学习环境，以及创新VE研究。