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Development of a Virtual Environment for Environmental Monitoring Education

Authors : Jeremy Dylan Smith, Vinod K. Lohani

Published in: Smart Industry & Smart Education

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This paper presents details design and considerations to pilot an educational virtual environment (VE) development. The environment is designed for Freshman engineering students to achieve learning objectives regarding (1) engineering model understanding and prediction, and (2) experimental setup in the context of environmental education. Human computer interaction (HCI) methods are used to inform the design of the virtual environment of the existing physical site through user task analysis. Environmental data is displayed to exhibit the inverse relationship between two water quality parameters to the students. The virtual environment is provided through the use of a smart phone based head-worn display (HWD). Students reported being distracted, which are mostly due to hardware constraints (n = 14).

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Metadata
Title
Development of a Virtual Environment for Environmental Monitoring Education
Authors
Jeremy Dylan Smith
Vinod K. Lohani
Copyright Year
2019
Book
Smart Industry & Smart Education

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-95677-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-95678-7

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95678-7_49

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