Collaborative Research: Use of Haptics in a Virtual Reality Environment for Learning Nanotechnology

合作研究：在虚拟现实环境中使用触觉来学习纳米技术

• 批准号: 0934822
• 负责人: Dianne Pawluk
• 金额: $ 7.07万
• 依托单位: Virginia Commonwealth University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0934822&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Use; Haptics; Virtual

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5) This engineering education research award to the University of Florida in collaboration with Virginia Commonwealth University will employ researchers to develop interactive virtual reality modules with haptic feedback to improve learning and promote interest in nanotechnology concepts. The modules will be used to support active learning for both normally sighted and visually impaired students with low-cost haptics providing feedback that does not rely on vision. Nanotechnology and nano-scale physics concepts are difficult for students to grasp, and use of these modules by high school students will increase interest in this important and rapidly evolving area of technology. In addition, the assessment of the benefit of haptic feedback in virtual reality simulation modules can lead to new understanding of the educational use of feedback that is not vision-based. This will have application to a broad range of the engineering curriculum and can increase the number of successful engineering students who are well prepared for engineering jobs.

该奖项是根据 2009 年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法 111-5）资助的。佛罗里达大学与弗吉尼亚联邦大学合作的这项工程教育研究奖将雇用研究人员开发具有触觉反馈的交互式虚拟现实模块，以改善学习并提高对纳米技术概念的兴趣。这些模块将用于支持视力正常和视障学生的主动学习，并通过低成本触觉提供不依赖视觉的反馈。纳米技术和纳米级物理概念对学生来说很难掌握，高中生使用这些模块将增加对这一重要且快速发展的技术领域的兴趣。此外，对虚拟现实模拟模块中触觉反馈的好处进行评估可以使人们对非视觉反馈的教育用途有新的理解。这将适用于广泛的工程课程，并可以增加为工程工作做好充分准备的成功工程学生的数量。