RETRACTED: Multi-touch, gesture-based simulations: Impacts on learning optical imaging and mental model development

Students Mental Models of Solid Elasticity: A Mixed Method Study

“…Internal abilities or representations, which are cognitive structures, help individuals develop their mental models. The abilities also refer to the process of understanding certain phenomena, evaluating a mental process, and determining the extent of obtained information (Hung, Xu, & Lin, 2020).…”

Reviewing Simulation Technology: Implications for Workplace Training

“…Recent research has built upon existing instructional systems' design taxonomies and established theoretical implications for simulation technology design attributes in the context of training (e.g., [13,116,117]). For example, previous research has explored differences between gesture-based motions (i.e., using the thumb and index finger to zoom in/out of a screen) and mouse-based motions (i.e., clicking an icon which represents zoom) [118]. The authors found that young learners in the multi-touch, gesture-based group spent more time interacting with the learning content, likely due to the intuitive nature of the gesture-based motions.…”

“…Thus, we recommend that educators consider utilizing simulation technology for training when a high-fidelity environment is requisite to the focal knowledge (e.g., physics, engineering). For example, simulation technology has consistently been shown to effectively develop spatial reasoning (e.g., [118,124,125]). Similarly, simulation technology may be effective for procedural knowledge, rather than declarative knowledge, as a result of mental models' construction [120,126].…”