Assessing the emotional impact of virtual reality-based teacher training

Stavroulia, Kalliopi Evangelia; Christofi, Maria; Baka, Evangelia; Michael-Grigoriou, Despina; Thalmann, Nadia Magnenat; Lanitis, Andreas

doi:10.1108/ijilt-11-2018-0127

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“…The study suggested that the virtual learning system can improve operational skills and provide an immersive experience to students. Stavroulia et al [28] developed a VR-based teacher training system for giving the 3D virtual experience of real-life situations in the school environment. The VR training system aimed to provide a situational learning experience to teachers related to substance use among the students.…”

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Virtual reality learning environment for enhancing electronics engineering laboratory experience

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Mantri

Sharma

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Comp Applic In Engineering

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Engineering laboratory courses have a significant role in building practical knowledge and enhancing the skills of the students. While working in electronics laboratories, students often operate complicated laboratory equipment and juggle through a set of multiple knobs and buttons to configure the equipment(s). It takes a lot of practice to master the skill of operating the laboratory equipment and it becomes difficult for students to operate the equipment without any prior experience. Virtual reality (VR) is the emerging technology and has the potential to provide a better learning experience to the students. In this paper, a VR‐based learning environment (VLE) is developed, which aims to give prior training to the engineering students about the electronics laboratory hardware. An experimental study was conducted to measure the effectiveness of VR on student knowledge development, learning motivation, and cognition. The study was conducted among the 65 engineering students and they were randomly divided into two groups: treatment group (N = 33) and control group (N = 32). The students of the treatment group were taught with the VR approach and students of the control group were taught with a conventional teaching approach. The outcomes of the experiment indicate that VR has a significant positive impact on student knowledge, learning motivation, and cognition. By interacting with the three‐dimensional virtual models of the laboratory instruments, students were able to demonstrate an improved understanding of the laboratory hardware. Also, the treatment group students mentioned that they were not worried about the equipment malfunction that has further enhanced their confidence and reduced the cognitive load.

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Virtual reality learning environment for enhancing electronics engineering laboratory experience

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Sharma

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Comp Applic In Engineering

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“…Emotion can affect heart rate when the subject is stimulated [ 5 ]. We conducted two experiments using our method to prove that it can provide effective data support for emotion recognition.…”

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“…Bland et al [4] evaluated the heart rate responses of students answering a series of questions related to the theory of evolution and found that students would produce perceptible emotional responses in the form of physiological changes when they were exposed to the theme of evolution. Stavroulia et al [5] (1) We propose a symmetry substitution method. When the head is rotated 30 degrees to 45 degrees, and the region of interest in the face is partially missing, the data detected in the left and right cheeks are symmetrically copied; (2) We designed a method to determine the effective facial region of interest (ROI) based on the face-eye location then calculate the physiological parameters;…”

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“…Bland et al [ 4 ] evaluated the heart rate responses of students answering a series of questions related to the theory of evolution and found that students would produce perceptible emotional responses in the form of physiological changes when they were exposed to the theme of evolution. Stavroulia et al [ 5 ] used heart rate data to evaluate the emotional changes of subjects in certain scenarios and virtual reality experiences. They found that the heart rate increased when the subjects’ moods changed significantly.…”

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Non-Contact Heart Rate Detection When Face Information Is Missing during Online Learning

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Cui

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Research shows that physiological signals can provide objective data support for the analysis of human emotions. At present, non-contact heart rate data have been employed in the research of medicine, intelligent transportation, smart education, etc. However, it is hard to detect heart rate data using non-contact traditional methods during head rotation, especially when face information is missing in scenarios such as online teaching/learning. Traditional remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) methods require a static, full frontal face within a fixed distance for heart rate detection. These strict requirements make it impractical to measure heart rate data in real-world scenarios, as a lot of videos only partially record the subjects’ face information, such as profile, too small distance, and wearing a mask. The current algorithm aims to solve the problem of head deflections between 30 degrees and 45 degrees by employing a symmetry substitution method, which can replace the undetected region of interest (ROI) with the detectable one. When face information is partially missing, our algorithm uses face–eye location to determine ROI. The results show that the method in this paper can solve certain practical problems related to heart rate detection, with a root mean square error (RMSE) under 7.64 bpm.

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“…It has been showed by several studies (Groom et al, 2009;Farmer et al, 2012;Maister et al, 2013;Peck et al, 2013;Banakou et al, 2016;Behm-Morawitz et al, 2016;Hasler et al, 2017) that embodiment of light-skinned participants in a dark-skinned virtual body significantly reduced implicit racial bias against dark-skinned people. Finally, a study (Christofi et al, 2018;Stavroulia et al, 2018Stavroulia et al, , 2019 examined the effect of viewing in VR, a drug incident at a school environment from different perspectives and viewpoints in relation to the level of presence achieved and the effects on mood states and empathy of teachers who were immersed in a virtual school where a drug use incident took place.…”

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A Virtual Reality Simulation of Drug Users’ Everyday Life: The Effect of Supported Sensorimotor Contingencies on Empathy

2020

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Perspective taking techniques have been used to transport people into imaginary situations and the lives of others. Virtual Reality provides an immersive way to virtually experience the lives of stigmatized by society members. Through the support of sensorimotor contingencies, people can use natural movements to view and interact with the virtual world around them. In this study, we compared a perspectivetaking immersive Virtual Reality system which supports a number of sensorimotor contingencies (SC group) with a perspective-taking desktop system of the same application but without support of any sensorimotor contingencies (NSC group), to investigate the effect of the supported sensorimotor contingencies in promoting empathy and positive attitudes toward drug users. Results demonstrate a strong correlation between closeness to the drug user and empathy in the SC group. In both groups there were a within group significant change in their reported attitudes before and after their exposure. Finally, participants in the SC condition reported significantly higher levels of Place Illusion (PI), body ownership, agency and plausibility of people. Further research is needed to investigate how sensorimotor contingencies can be exploited to the fullest to be used as an effective method to induce empathy and change attitudes toward stigmatized by society people.

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Assessing the emotional impact of virtual reality-based teacher training

Cited by 44 publications

References 68 publications

Virtual reality learning environment for enhancing electronics engineering laboratory experience

Virtual reality learning environment for enhancing electronics engineering laboratory experience

Non-Contact Heart Rate Detection When Face Information Is Missing during Online Learning

A Virtual Reality Simulation of Drug Users’ Everyday Life: The Effect of Supported Sensorimotor Contingencies on Empathy

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