Designing a Collaborative Virtual Reality Game for Teen-Robot Interactions

Kim, Ada S.; Björling, Elin A.; Bhatia, Simran; Liu, Dong

doi:10.1145/3311927.3325314

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“…In a previously published late breaking report (Kim et al, 2019), we briefly described several user design sessions with teens that led to the development of our VR Robot Designer game. In this paper, we cover the design process in more detail and include new findings resulting from a pilot test of our mid-fidelity VR game.…”

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I Am the Robot: Teen Collaboration in an Asymmetric, Virtual Reality Game

Björling¹,

Kim²,

Oleson³

et al. 2022

Front. Virtual Real.

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Virtual reality (VR) offers potential as a collaborative tool for both technology design and human-robot interaction. We utilized a participatory, human-centered design (HCD) methodology to develop a collaborative, asymmetric VR game to explore teens’ perceptions of, and interactions with, social robots. Our paper illustrates three stages of our design process; ideation, prototyping, and usability testing with users. Through these stages we identified important design requirements for our mid-fidelity environment. We then describe findings from our pilot test of the mid-fidelity VR game with teens. Due to the unique asymmetric virtual reality design, we observed successful collaborations, and interesting collaboration styles across teens. This study highlights the potential for asymmetric VR as a collaborative design tool as well as an appropriate medium for successful teen-to-teen collaboration.

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I Am the Robot: Teen Collaboration in an Asymmetric, Virtual Reality Game

Björling¹,

Kim²,

Oleson³

et al. 2022

Front. Virtual Real.

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“…Thus, VLEs have a huge advantage in protecting the natural curiosity of children. Last, VR has a great influence on motivating learners and encouraging communication [15]. There is a tendency to be active and communicate through verbal or non-verbal ways when in VLEs.…”

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A Learning Module of Robot Programming for Elementary Schools: Based on Virtual Reality

Wang¹

2023

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Robot programming learning is an effective approach to developing 21st century learning skills. However, there are many problems in the learning practice of robot programming. Recently, teaching based on virtual reality (VR) has appeared as an effective method of robot programming teaching. Therefore, the current study examines the application of VR affordances in robot programming and provides a design of the learning module based on VR. The whole module is presented in 3 parts: needs assessment, media selection, and learning activities. The needs assessment part illustrates the needs, targeted learners, and learning objectives. The second part discusses and concludes why VR is suitable for robot programming learning and how it takes effect in the learning process. Ultimately, this third part provides the learning activities based on the discussion above. The learning activities are divided into 3 parts: robot lab, task classroom, and competitions. Each part takes advantage of specific affordances. These designs are aimed at facilitating learners’ collaboration and construction. The theory of change is also analyzed in the conclusion. In addition to the content of learning objectives, better collaboration and construction are expected to be the learning outcomes.

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