A Chat Interface Using Standards for Communication and e-Learning in Virtual Worlds

Is Metaverse in education a blessing or a curse: a combined content and bibliometric analysis

“…The motivation for using Metaverse in natural science, mathematics, and engineering is because it can provide technical support for the discipline, such as providing 3D modeling computer programs for courses (Sourin, 2017), helping students to establish connections between experiments and virtual objects, and providing autonomous tutoring systems based on user interaction data mining (Pereira et al, 2015). In arts and humanities, Metaverse was frequently used for language learning as it can help people communicate with people of different languages in virtual worlds and provide new possibilities for learning foreign languages (Cruz-Lara et al, 2010). Finally, Metaverse was widely used in the field of education because combining the virtual world with physical classrooms can create new learning possibilities for collaborative, cooperative, and problem-based learning (Araya & Avila, 2018).…”

“…In the reviewed studies, students had the possibility to use avatars as a way to represent their digital identities within the Metaverse. Particularly, some studies provided the opportunity for students to select one avatar from the already built-in avatars (Cruz-Lara et al, 2010). Other studies provide the students the possibility to create their avatars and customize them (Díaz et al, 2020).…”

“…Students can perform skills in the virtual platform, including flying, walking, purchasing different objects, and personalizing their wardrobe and appearance to interact with virtual world objects (Díaz et al, 2020). In addition to that point, students are being able to interact with other users through social chat in the virtual platform created by the Metaverse, students communicate powerfully with others through explicit or implicit references to environmental objects, gestures, poses, facial expressions (Cruz-Lara et al, 2010;Díaz et al, 2020). The digital avatar combines objects, people, and places to create a virtual three-dimensional world for the user that is basically indistinguishable from the real world (Cruz-Lara et al, 2010).…”

“…Therefore, MR can mainly deal with the occurrence of voice interaction in students' learning process, allowing students to establish a deeper connection with the virtual world. In addition, VR allows virtual world servers to manage virtual environments and create avatar sharing in order to enable immersive learning for students (Cruz-Lara et al, 2010). In other words, students in the Metaverse can create their own avatars through VR, interact socially with other students, and control the avatars according to the displayed environment, so as to achieve immersive effects (Cruz-Lara et al, 2010).…”

Associating Automatic Natural Language Processing to Serious Games and Virtual Worlds

“…Nowadays, an increasing number of standards are frequently being used within most scientific and technical domains. In previous work (Cruz-Lara S., Bellalem N., Bellalem L., and Osswald T., 2009;Cruz-Lara et al, 2011) we have explained how a standardized framework for textual multilingual support (MLIF, 2011) associated with an immersive 3D environment, may considerably change the way people usually deal with multilingual information and with language learning.…”