The WELD-VR research project aims to develop teaching for welding and metallurgy in VR, to be used in the related teaching at University West. A single player VR application has been developed in Unreal Engine, and will be continually refined throughout 2022 until summer 2023.
OL08 Creation and Deployment of Guiding Agents in Teaching Welding in VR
Background
Aim/goal/research question
Prototype and investigate how the addition of animated or pre-recorded virtual agents can be used to improve guidance of students. This includes investigations of how teachers (as creators of teaching material) can create and set up such agents either by recording their actions or otherwise configuring their behavior, as well as how this is best integrated into the current VR application.
Method
Prototype development, primarily based on an existing application in Unreal Engine.
Recommended past experience/interest
Unreal Engine, VR, game programming, multiplayer development.
Related Work
- Löfström, D., & Nilsson, M. (2021). Virtuella verkligheter som läromedel för studenter inom svetsning samt metallurgi : En studie kring WELD-VR med avatarer och agenter i fokus (Dissertation). Hämtad från http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-16554
- Pedagogical Agents in Educational VR: An in the Wild Study | Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (acm.org)
Partners
This is part of the WELD-VR research project performed in collaboration between the departments “Economy and IT” and “Engineering Scíence”.
Resource limitations
The software development will partially be done using VR equipment shared with other student projects in Open Lab at University West. This means that access to equipment may be limited and need to be coordinated with the other involved students. Also, this means that the possibility of extending the time for doing the thesis work is constrained and the access to the device after June 10th cannot be guaranteed.