Virtual Reality Laboratory as a Factor in Increasing Engineering Students’ Motivation

Brass Haptics: Comparing Virtual and Physical Trumpets in Extended Realities

“…Table 2 shows the results of each of our proposed interfaces: The analysis shows that although the virtual implementations perform better in some aspects such as noise (excluding the voice-activated model) and versatility, all suffer in terms of ease of use and familiarity due to tracking or user errors associated with learning a new interface. When a student is learning a new instrument, the allure of new technologies can contribute to increasing interest and reducing frustration (Makarova et al 2023;Stark et al 2023), but if the new implementation itself is frustrating to use, the end result will still be a student who is not motivated to practice. Virtual implementations hold promise for extensible performance systems, but if a player is used to an instrument and a new virtual version of the instrument is not sufficiently familiar, they will likely prefer the physical instrument, as learning the new interface can be frustrating.…”

“…These environments can be manipulated to induce different levels of comfort in the user through adding factors such as an active virtual audience, thereby creating an accessible system for treating performance anxiety through virtual exposure therapy (Bissonnette et al 2015). The novelty of VR increases student interest, with studies on virtual training demonstrating an increase in voluntary repetition (Makarova et al 2023;Stark et al 2023), as well as similar or better performance and retention over traditional training (Cabrera et al 2019). Virtual reality environments also foster creativity through inspirational environments (Li et al 2022;Ppali et al 2022) and normally impossible interfaces (Desnoyers-Stewart et al 2018).…”

“…Based on our evaluations, physical trumpets provided the best simulation experience due to the realistic and timely audio, and haptic feedback and freedom from tracking errors. While playing an acoustic trumpet in virtual reality does not affect its physical properties such as noise or familiarity, the environment may improve engagement and accessibility (Makarova et al 2023;Stark et al 2023). The Morrison Digital Trumpet we used does not measure embouchure directly, but rather splits the collection of this embouchure information into breath pressure (which controls note dynamics) and register selection (the set of available notes, determined on traditional instruments by the input frequency), which is controlled by selecting one of a set of buttons on the side of the instrument.…”

Educating Future Agricultural Engineers at the University of Burgos, Spain, through a Service-Learning Project on Rural Depopulation and Its Social Consequences

“…A motivation level is a complex aspect to define [45,46], so it was thought that a good way of measuring it might be to take habitual practice on the course as a reference. Greater motivation is an indicator of a greater willingness and an active attitude towards learning the concepts of the course [47], possibly thanks to the greater interest aroused in the students [48]. In relation to this aspect, the teachers indicated that their perception of the motivation raised by the S-LP in the students could be equated to that of the workshop-practice part of the course, which was generally the part of the course in which the students showed the greatest interest.…”