360VR PBL: A New Format of Digital Cases in Clinical Medicine

Davidsen, Jacob; Larsen, Dorthe Vinther; Paulsen, Lucas; Rasmussen, Sten

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“…It is already being used to connect people from around the globe, for example, for multiplayer games and work meetings. In the future, VR will probably be used even more for the purposes of distance education (see, e.g., Davidsen et al, 2022;Pirker et al, 2020;Pirker & Dengel, 2021), as well as remote work and collaboration (see, e.g., Li et al, 2021), both of which have become increasingly vital recently. Effective new ways to communicate in virtual teams are needed for both work and leisure, which is why the potential of immersive social VR needs to be studied (Li et al, 2021).…”

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Environmentally coupled gestures as a communicative resource in the word explanation activity: A multimodal analysis of interaction in social VR

Spets

2023

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This article contributes to our understanding of how participants use different resources to accomplish word explanations in social virtual reality (VR). The article draws on conversation analysis to examine audio-visual data of interaction on the Rec Room VR platform. A view of the physical space the participants inhabit has also been captured. There are twelve participants, and they have minimal experience with social VR. English is used as a lingua franca. The focus is on participants’ use of environmentally coupled gestures (EnCGs) during word explanation activity. The activity has two or more participants playing a word-guessing game, in which one participant explains a word using drawings and gesture as well as speech. Findings show that EnCGs that feature elements in the environment are more readily interpretable than EnCGs that feature elements over the avatar body. The latter can result in situations in which achieving the goal of a word explanation activity (correct guess) can be difficult. In addition, the explainer’s orientation to their physical body and the recipient’s orientation to the virtual body during the joint word explanation activity can create situations in which the gestures become difficult to interpret for the recipient. To conclude, the observations in this article reveal the importance of the alignment of virtual and physical gestures for the intelligibility of gesture in VR.

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Environmentally coupled gestures as a communicative resource in the word explanation activity: A multimodal analysis of interaction in social VR

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2023

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Designing for collaborative learning in immersive virtual reality: a systematic literature review

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Davidsen

2024

Virtual Reality

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Immersive learning technologies such as virtual reality have long been deemed as the next generation of digital learning environments. There is a limited number of studies addressing how immersive technologies can be designed, applied, and studied in collaborative learning settings. This paper presents a systematic review of empirical studies reporting on use of immersive virtual reality in collaborative learning within educational and professional learning settings. 11 studies have been grouped and coded in a textual narrative synthesis, outlining the pedagogical concepts behind the learning design, as well as the design of virtual reality environments and the collaborative learning activities in which the technology is employed. The results suggest that collaborative learning in virtual reality can currently be conceptualised as a shared experience in an immersive, virtually mediated space, where there is a shared goal/problem which learners must attend to collaboratively. This conceptualisation implies a need to design technologies, environments, and activities that support participation and social interaction, fostering collaborative learning processes. Based on the outlined conceptualisation, we present a series of recommendations for designing for collaborative learning in immersive virtual reality. The paper concludes that collaborative learning in virtual reality creates a practice- and reflection space, where learning is perceived as engaging, without the risk of interfering with actual practices. Current designs however struggle with usability, realism, and facilitating social interaction. The paper further identifies a need for future research into what happens within virtual reality, rather than only looking at post-virtual reality evaluations.

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Virtual Reality in Education and the Co-construction of Immediacy

Forsler

2024

Postdigit Sci Educ

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Virtual reality (VR) in educational settings is often promoted by commercial actors as a way to experience environments outside the classroom and a soon-to-be part of everyday teaching and learning. This study follows the development of an educational software package in a Swedish municipality that combines VR technology with 360° live footage from museums and science centers to enable students to visit these spaces from the classroom via their headsets. By focusing on the workarounds and configurations intuitively performed by teachers, students, museum staff, and technicians in this pilot project, different kinds of articulation work performed to make the technology fit with local conditions are identified, from hands-on repair and maintenance to the facilitation of interaction and presence. The collective effort put into making the technology disappear and create a feeling of unmediated experience or immediacy shows how global imaginaries about VR as an immersive technology are enacted by the participants, at the same time as the work put into the project made them challenge the idea of VR as a new everyday technology. This tension between the desire for immediacy and the hands-on work in the physical environment that goes into fulfilling these imaginaries points to the need for local production of educational technologies that recognizes their co-constructive, embodied, and situated nature.

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360VR PBL: A New Format of Digital Cases in Clinical Medicine

Cited by 3 publications

References 14 publications

Environmentally coupled gestures as a communicative resource in the word explanation activity: A multimodal analysis of interaction in social VR

Environmentally coupled gestures as a communicative resource in the word explanation activity: A multimodal analysis of interaction in social VR

Designing for collaborative learning in immersive virtual reality: a systematic literature review

Virtual Reality in Education and the Co-construction of Immediacy

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