Designing Contextually: An Investigation of Design-Based Research to Promote Situated Irish Language Identity through Virtual Reality

Collins, Naoise; Vaughan, Brian; Cullen, Charlie

doi:10.23919/ilrn47897.2020.9155106

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“…In these studies, participants can freely explore a VE in which target words are placed as visual objects. VEs typically correspond to familiar environments such as a living room (Ebert, Gupta and Makedon, 2016;Garcia et al, 2019), kitchen (Legault et al, 2019;Jia and Liu, 2019), zoo (Legault et al, 2019), airport customs (Dobrova et al, 2018), classroom (Cho, 2018) or supermarket (Collins, Vaughan and Cullen, 2020).…”

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“…It provides a person with a full 360-degree experience by wearing either a head-mounted display or with surrounding projections. IVR has characteristics that create new opportunities for second language (L2) learners, including creating a feeling of interacting with an object inside the virtual environment (VE) or conversing with a non-player character (NPC) to counter learner anxiety (Collins, Vaughan and Cullen, 2020). IVR is also able to quickly bring variations into a VE or to change the whole VE.…”

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Vocabulary Acquisition in New and Learned Contexts Using Immersive Virtual Reality

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Theune,

Van Delden

2023

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Vocabulary acquisition is important for learning a language. Language learners need multiple encounters with a word to add unknown word aspects to their word knowledge or to strengthen their knowledge of previously learned word aspects. Combining vocabulary acquisition with immersive virtual reality (IVR) makes it possible to have such multiple encounters. In IVR, objects representing target words can be shown in the same virtual environment as they were first encountered (learned context), but also in a new virtual environment (new context). To investigate learning words in either a new or learned context in IVR we built Wics (words in context system). We used Wics to carry out an experiment in which participants could learn 32 Japanese words, represented by 3D objects, in three sessions. In the second and third learning session all words were shown in either a new context, with a changed environment and a changed visual representation of the word objects, or a learned context, where only the placement of the objects was changed. Performance scores for an immediate and a delayed post-test (one week later) revealed no significant differences in performance between conditions. However, there was a tendency towards participants spending more time on learning the words in the learned context condition. We believe Wics to be the first IVR system to provide learners with multiple learning sessions to provide multiple encounters with the same words in different contexts, where learners have control over their own explorative learning, and where the post-tests are inside IVR.

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Vocabulary Acquisition in New and Learned Contexts Using Immersive Virtual Reality

Bergsma,

Theune,

Van Delden

2023

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Cultural Heritage in Fully Immersive Virtual Reality

Cecotti

2022

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Fully immersive virtual reality (VR) applications have modified the way people access cultural heritage—from the visiting of virtual museums containing large collections of paintings to the visiting of ancient buildings. In this paper, we propose to review the software that are currently available that deal with cultural heritage in fully immersive virtual reality. It goes beyond technologies that were available prior to virtual reality headsets, at a time where virtual was simply the synonym of the application of digital technologies to cultural heritage. We propose to group these applications depending on their content—from generic art galleries and museums to applications that focus on a single artwork or single artist. Furthermore, we review different ways to assess the performance of such applications with workload, usability, flow, and potential VR symptoms surveys. This paper highlights the progress in the implementation of applications that provide immersive learning experiences related to cultural heritage, from 360 images to photogrammetry and 3D models. The paper shows the discrepancy between available software to the general audience on various VR headsets and scholarship activities dealing with cultural heritage in VR.

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Designing Contextually: An Investigation of Design-Based Research to Promote Situated Irish Language Identity through Virtual Reality

Cited by 2 publications

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Vocabulary Acquisition in New and Learned Contexts Using Immersive Virtual Reality

Vocabulary Acquisition in New and Learned Contexts Using Immersive Virtual Reality

Cultural Heritage in Fully Immersive Virtual Reality

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