Visceral VR: Immersive Human Biology for the Study of Health and Disease

Visceral VR：用于健康和疾病研究的沉浸式人类生物学

• 批准号: 10056601
• 负责人: David Sarno
• 金额: $ 68.7万
• 依托单位: LIGHTHAUS, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-06-01 至 2022-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10056601
• 关键词: Active Learning; Attitude; Bite; Cells; Cognition; Cognitive; Data; Diet and Nutrition; Disease; Eating; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Fatty acid glycerol esters; Feasibility Studies; Food; Food Labeling; Generations; Goals; Health; High School Student; Human Biology; Image; Immersion; Knowledge; Label; Learning; Life; Medicine; Modality; Molecular; Nutrient; Nutritional Science; Physiological; Physiology; Process; Randomized; Research; STEM career; Science; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics; Scientist; Self Perception; Series; Small Intestines; Students; Testing; Travel; Visceral; Work; base; career; control trial; design; experience; frontier; gastrointestinal system; healthy lifestyle; high school; impression; interest; mathematical learning; novel; nutrition; pedagogy; theories; usability; virtual; virtual reality; virtual reality environment

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: VISCERAL VR Basic nutrition information often comes in the form of bland, abstract words and numbers on a food label – a label many consumers ignore. Lighthaus’s Visceral VR aims to bring nutrition to life by harnessing the power of virtual reality (VR) to pioneer an immersive, interactive approach to teaching the science of nutrition to high school students. With Visceral, students can follow a meal from the first bite to the last molecule, travelling through the digestive system into the small intestine, where they can break the food down into molecular nutrients to explore what’s “healthy” and what isn’t -- and see whether those molecules are delivered to cells for energy or stored as fat. Visceral gives students a gut-level understanding of the relationship between food and health. Lighthaus’s VR-based immersive science and health curricula are designed to engage students in exciting, transformative experiences that challenge them to apply scientific thought and practice to develop theories based on first-hand experimentation in in VR. We believe these embodied experiences in science can inspire a new generation of students to pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Our project will evaluate science-based VR curriculum's ability to spark student interest in STEM careers, as well as the effect it has on their retention of health-related knowledge they can use for crucial lifelong diet and nutrition decisions. We will conduct a series of usability and feasibility studies with high school science students, followed by a randomized control trial (RCT) to test the hypothesis that student use of Visceral can have an effect on students’ health and physiology content knowledge, students’ attitudes towards nutrition and diet, and students’ STEM aspirations and self-perceptions as scientists.

项目总结/摘要：内脏VR 基本的营养信息往往是以平淡，抽象的文字和数字的形式出现在一张纸上。 食品标签-许多消费者忽略的标签。Lighthaus的Visceral VR旨在将营养带到 利用虚拟现实（VR）的力量，开创一种沉浸式、互动式的生活方式， 向高中生讲授营养科学的方法。与内脏，学生 可以从第一口咬到最后一个分子，通过消化系统旅行 进入小肠，在那里他们可以将食物分解成分子营养素， 什么是“健康的”，什么不是--看看这些分子是否被输送到细胞中， 能量或储存为脂肪。内脏给学生一个肠道水平的理解的关系 食物和健康之间的关系。 Lighthaus基于VR的沉浸式科学和健康课程旨在吸引学生 在激动人心的，变革性的经验，挑战他们运用科学思想， 实践，以VR中的第一手实验为基础开发理论。我们相信这些 在科学方面的具体经验可以激励新一代的学生追求职业生涯， 科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）。 我们的项目将评估以科学为基础的VR课程激发学生兴趣的能力， STEM职业，以及它对他们保留健康相关知识的影响，他们可以 用于重要的终身饮食和营养决策。 我们将与高中理科学生进行一系列的可用性和可行性研究， 随后进行随机对照试验（RCT），以检验学生使用内脏 对学生的健康和生理内容知识、学生的态度 对营养和饮食，以及学生的STEM愿望和自我认知的科学家。