Virtual Observations: a software tool for contextual observation and assessment of user’s actions in virtual reality

Howie, Scott; Gilardi, Marco

doi:10.1007/s10055-020-00463-5

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“…Especially in immersive VR, tracking the user action such as inputs can be difficult and requires special attention to ensure an accurate reconstruction (Howie and Gilardi, 2020). Beyond measuring participants performance in VR, it is often useful to measure their attitudes with surveys (Grübel et al, 2016;Tcha-Tokey et al, 2016) (Grübel et al, 2016) for subjective measures and if possible their physiological reaction (Weibel et al, 2018) to underpin the mechanism investigated in a study beyond self-report and task completion.…”

Section: Data Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Only a few frameworks opt for databases (i.e. Grübel et al, 2016;Howie and Gilardi, 2020;Wang et al, 2020;Brookes et al, 2019) because they have more complex use cases in mind. Large amounts of raw data from different sources make text files unwielding and require more effective data assembly.…”

Section: Data Assemblymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Data assembly is rarely the focus of a framework. Virtual Observations (Howie and Gilardi, 2020) focuses on the reconstruction of user actions. In particular, immersive VR user input requires special care as handheld controllers spatially located in the virtual scene produce a large amount of data that critically defines the participants' action in the scene.…”

Section: Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Experiments as Code: A Concept for Reproducible, Auditable, Debuggable, Reusable, & Scalable Experiments

Aguilar¹,

Gath-Morad²,

Grübel³

et al. 2022

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A common concern in experimental research is the auditability and reproducibility of experiments. Experiments are usually designed, provisioned, managed, and analyzed by diverse teams of specialists (e.g., researchers, technicians and engineers) and may require many resources (e.g. cloud infrastructure, specialized equipment). Even though researchers strive to document experiments accurately, this process is often lacking, making it hard to reproduce them. Moreover, when it is necessary to create a similar experiment, very often we end up "reinventing the wheel" as it is easier to start from scratch than trying to reuse existing work, thus losing valuable embedded best practices and previous experiences. In behavioral studies this has contributed to the reproducibility crisis. To tackle this challenge, we propose the "Experiments as Code" paradigm, where the whole experiment is not only documented but additionally the automation code to provision, deploy, manage, and analyze it is provided. To this end we define the Experiments as Code concept, provide a taxonomy for the components of a practical implementation, and provide a proof of concept with a simple desktop VR experiment that showcases the benefits of its "as code" representation, i.e., reproducibility, auditability, debuggability, reusability, & scalability.

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Experiments as Code: A Concept for Reproducible, Auditable, Debuggable, Reusable, & Scalable Experiments

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Gath-Morad²,

Grübel³

et al. 2022

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“…According to (Scavarelli et al, 2021), software development will replace hardware and memory storage, and immersive VR will become commonplace. Nonetheless, implementation will be tricky because special software is for educational application demands (Howie & Gilardi, 2021).…”

Section: Virtual Reality In Educationmentioning

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Enhancing student engagement in vocational education by using virtual reality

Rafiq

Triyono

Djatmiko

2022

WJE

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In education, particularly vocational higher education, student involvement is a challenge. Teachers can use virtual reality to bring real-life events into the classroom, encouraging active learning and student participation. Virtual Reality (VR) can be employed in various ways using a simple, easy and helpful application that can be difficult to execute pedagogically Three research methods were conducted in a classroom setting, with total simulation using VR oculus rift technology, and data analysed using desktop computer theme analysis. Students from engineering departments took part in the research, using VR to boost student learning engagement. According to the statistics, VR appears reasonably simple to use, and students feel it enhances their comprehension and engagement. According to this preliminary research, VR environments provide an intense presence, enhancing student engagement and motivation. This conclusion supports the findings of prior investigations.

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“…In order to meet the accessibility requirements of different users on the browser side [18,19], the configuration requirements of the equipment during system development shall be minimized as far as possible so as to meet most browser in the market. e system uses JSP (Java Server Pages) dynamic web page backend technology to contact the browser-side HTML web page system operation interface and server database.…”

Section: Browser Environment Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Research on the Design of Assistant Basketball Teaching System Based on Big Data

Wang

Wei

Yuan

2022

Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience

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Due to the limitations of the current teaching resources searched by the system, it is difficult to achieve good results in basketball teaching. For this reason, an auxiliary basketball teaching system based on big data is designed. On the basis of clarifying the basic principles of teaching system design, JSP (Java Server Pages) dynamic web page back-end technology and Tomcat 7.0 server are used as the system support structure. Take the big data environment as the source of teaching resources and match them to different databases according to the characteristics of the resources. And combined with real-time evaluation to achieve the assessment of teaching effects and the management of teaching resources, the test results show that the average score of the basketball technical action test under the guidance of this system is higher than 7.5 points when the experimental subjects have the same level of basketball skills. In the paired sample t-test and the independent sample t-test of the performance level test scores P = 0.001 < 0.05 , there is a significant difference. It shows that the system can effectively improve the teaching effect of basketball and improve students’ basketball test scores.

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Virtual Observations: a software tool for contextual observation and assessment of user’s actions in virtual reality

Cited by 14 publications

References 19 publications

Experiments as Code: A Concept for Reproducible, Auditable, Debuggable, Reusable, & Scalable Experiments

Experiments as Code: A Concept for Reproducible, Auditable, Debuggable, Reusable, & Scalable Experiments

Enhancing student engagement in vocational education by using virtual reality

Research on the Design of Assistant Basketball Teaching System Based on Big Data

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