VR Neuro Game: a Virtual Reality Game to Support Neuroanatomy Teaching and Learning
Using virtual environments (VEs) is a safer and cost-effective alternative to training people in different contexts. Immersive Virtual Reality (VR), combined with game aspects, have the potential to improve the user experience in the VE by increasing realism, engagement, and motivation. In educatio...
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| author | Vinícius Souza Anderson Maciel Luciana Nedel Regis Kopper Klaus Loges Eliane Schlemmer |
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Using virtual environments (VEs) is a safer and cost-effective alternative to training people in different contexts. Immersive Virtual Reality (VR), combined with game aspects, have the potential to improve the user experience in the VE by increasing realism, engagement, and motivation. In education, there is a consensus about its contribution in the teaching and learning processes. However, in Brazil, only a few research groups have developed projects that involve the development of VR for education, due to technical difficulties and high costs. This manuscript presents the development and evaluation of an VR serious game to support the learning of neuroanatomy, an extended version of our previously published paper at the SVR 2020. In this version, we present the results of four different user studies, involving 57 participants, which suggest that the VR Neuro Game is easy to use, even by inexperienced subjects in VR, and is potentially useful for teaching and learning processes, both by individual students and groups of students and also in remote learning. In addition, the game was considered fun and did not cause discomfort. When comparing the knowledge test performance before and immediately after the experiments, we found significant difference only for the virtual condition. The same could be observed for retention results.
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| spelling | doaj.art-330560a10bd74209b0834d7280ab0e602023-02-09T18:06:59ZengBrazilian Computer SocietyJournal on Interactive Systems2763-77192021-11-0112110.5753/jis.2021.2090VR Neuro Game: a Virtual Reality Game to Support Neuroanatomy Teaching and LearningVinícius Souza0Anderson Maciel1Luciana Nedel2Regis Kopper3Klaus Loges4Eliane Schlemmer5Universidade do Vale do Rio dos SinosUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulUniversity of North Carolina at GreensboroUniversidade do Vale do Rio dos SinosUniversidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos Using virtual environments (VEs) is a safer and cost-effective alternative to training people in different contexts. Immersive Virtual Reality (VR), combined with game aspects, have the potential to improve the user experience in the VE by increasing realism, engagement, and motivation. In education, there is a consensus about its contribution in the teaching and learning processes. However, in Brazil, only a few research groups have developed projects that involve the development of VR for education, due to technical difficulties and high costs. This manuscript presents the development and evaluation of an VR serious game to support the learning of neuroanatomy, an extended version of our previously published paper at the SVR 2020. In this version, we present the results of four different user studies, involving 57 participants, which suggest that the VR Neuro Game is easy to use, even by inexperienced subjects in VR, and is potentially useful for teaching and learning processes, both by individual students and groups of students and also in remote learning. In addition, the game was considered fun and did not cause discomfort. When comparing the knowledge test performance before and immediately after the experiments, we found significant difference only for the virtual condition. The same could be observed for retention results. https://sol.sbc.org.br/journals/index.php/jis/article/view/2090Virtual RealityPresenceUser Evaluation |
| spellingShingle | Vinícius Souza Anderson Maciel Luciana Nedel Regis Kopper Klaus Loges Eliane Schlemmer VR Neuro Game: a Virtual Reality Game to Support Neuroanatomy Teaching and Learning Journal on Interactive Systems Virtual Reality Presence User Evaluation |
| title | VR Neuro Game: a Virtual Reality Game to Support Neuroanatomy Teaching and Learning |
| title_full | VR Neuro Game: a Virtual Reality Game to Support Neuroanatomy Teaching and Learning |
| title_fullStr | VR Neuro Game: a Virtual Reality Game to Support Neuroanatomy Teaching and Learning |
| title_full_unstemmed | VR Neuro Game: a Virtual Reality Game to Support Neuroanatomy Teaching and Learning |
| title_short | VR Neuro Game: a Virtual Reality Game to Support Neuroanatomy Teaching and Learning |
| title_sort | vr neuro game a virtual reality game to support neuroanatomy teaching and learning |
| topic | Virtual Reality Presence User Evaluation |
| url | https://sol.sbc.org.br/journals/index.php/jis/article/view/2090 |
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