Collaborative virtual 3D environment for internet-accessible physics experiments
Immersive 3D worlds have increasingly raised the interest of researchers and practitioners for various learning and training settings over the last decade. These virtual worlds can provide multiple communication channels between users and improve presence and awareness in the learning process. Conse...
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International Association of Online Engineering
2009
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| author | Scheucher, T. Bailey, P. Guetl, Christian Harward, J. |
| author2 | Michael E Auer |
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| description | Immersive 3D worlds have increasingly raised the interest of researchers and practitioners for various learning and training settings over the last decade. These virtual worlds can provide multiple communication channels between users and improve presence and awareness in the learning process. Consequently virtual 3D environments facilitate collaborative learning and training scenarios. In this paper we focus on the integration of internet accessible physics experiments (iLabs) combined with the TEALsim 3D simulation toolkit in Project Wonderland, Sun's toolkit for creating collaborative 3D virtual worlds. Within such a collaborative environment these tools provide the opportunity for teachers and students to work together as avatars as they control actual equipment, visualize physical phenomenon generated by the experiment, and discuss the results. In particular we will outline the steps of integration, future goals, as well as the value of a collaboration space in Wonderland's virtual world. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-412742022-12-09T07:12:34Z Collaborative virtual 3D environment for internet-accessible physics experiments Scheucher, T. Bailey, P. Guetl, Christian Harward, J. Michael E Auer Navarun Gupta Jani Pallis TEALsim iLabs physics experiments virtual worlds collaborative immersive environment Project Wonderland Immersive 3D worlds have increasingly raised the interest of researchers and practitioners for various learning and training settings over the last decade. These virtual worlds can provide multiple communication channels between users and improve presence and awareness in the learning process. Consequently virtual 3D environments facilitate collaborative learning and training scenarios. In this paper we focus on the integration of internet accessible physics experiments (iLabs) combined with the TEALsim 3D simulation toolkit in Project Wonderland, Sun's toolkit for creating collaborative 3D virtual worlds. Within such a collaborative environment these tools provide the opportunity for teachers and students to work together as avatars as they control actual equipment, visualize physical phenomenon generated by the experiment, and discuss the results. In particular we will outline the steps of integration, future goals, as well as the value of a collaboration space in Wonderland's virtual world. 2009 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41274 International Association of Online Engineering fulltext |
| spellingShingle | TEALsim iLabs physics experiments virtual worlds collaborative immersive environment Project Wonderland Scheucher, T. Bailey, P. Guetl, Christian Harward, J. Collaborative virtual 3D environment for internet-accessible physics experiments |
| title | Collaborative virtual 3D environment for internet-accessible physics experiments |
| title_full | Collaborative virtual 3D environment for internet-accessible physics experiments |
| title_fullStr | Collaborative virtual 3D environment for internet-accessible physics experiments |
| title_full_unstemmed | Collaborative virtual 3D environment for internet-accessible physics experiments |
| title_short | Collaborative virtual 3D environment for internet-accessible physics experiments |
| title_sort | collaborative virtual 3d environment for internet-accessible physics experiments |
| topic | TEALsim iLabs physics experiments virtual worlds collaborative immersive environment Project Wonderland |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41274 |