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VRdeo: Creating engaging educational material for asynchronous student-teacher exchange using virtual reality

BRŮŽA, Vojtěch, Jan BYŠKA, Jan MIČAN and Barbora KOZLÍKOVÁ

Basic information

Original name

VRdeo: Creating engaging educational material for asynchronous student-teacher exchange using virtual reality

Authors

BRŮŽA, Vojtěch (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jan BYŠKA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jan MIČAN (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Barbora KOZLÍKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

COMPUTERS & GRAPHICS-UK, OXFORD, PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2021, 0097-8493

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10200 1.2 Computer and information sciences

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 1.821

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14330/21:00122288

Organization unit

Faculty of Informatics

DOI

UT WoS

000684519700011

Keywords in English

Virtual reality; Video authoring; Educational material

Tags

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 24/7/2023 09:24, doc. RNDr. Barbora Kozlíková, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

Educational videos are traditional means of communicating scientific findings to a broader audience. Nowadays, they are also a very common medium in distant teaching. However, creating videos using the existing software tools can be very challenging for inexperienced users. Also, the student's engagement in standard videos is often very limited as the experience and exploration of the presented phenomena is indirect and far from being interactive. To overcome this, we propose a novel tool, called VRdeo, for creating and presenting educational material that utilizes the advantages of virtual reality (VR). Each stage of the production is represented by an operating mode, where the user acts in a predefined role. VRdeo is a versatile platform that enables tutors to immerse into the virtual scene, explore 3D models of scientific data, and record a narrated story where the tutor is an active element, represented by a virtual avatar. The recording can be exported as a virtual scene. The observers (e.g., students) can then enter such a scene where they can move around and have several options for replaying and interacting with the tutor's story. In cases when the observer cannot use a virtual reality device, VRdeo enables to generate a traditional 2D video as well. To evaluate VRdeo, we asked several experts in diverse fields for their feedback and conducted a user study with students, which gave us valuable information about its usefulness for both creating and consuming the narrated stories.