Immunology Virtual Reality (VR): Exploring Educational VR Experience Design for Science Learning

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dc.contributor.authorZhang, Leien
dc.contributor.committeechairTucker, Thomas J.en
dc.contributor.committeememberDuer, Zachary R.en
dc.contributor.committeememberDane, Websteren
dc.contributor.departmentArt and Art Historyen
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-13T12:47:57Zen
dc.date.available2018-07-13T12:47:57Zen
dc.date.issued2018-05-14en
dc.description.abstractImmunology Virtual Reality (VR) project is an immersive educational virtual reality experience that intends to provide an informal learning experience of specific immunology concepts to college freshmen in the Department of Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech (VT). The project is an interdisciplinary endeavor between my collaboration between people from different domain areas at VT: Creative Technologies, Education, Biological Sciences, and Computer Sciences. This thesis elaborates on the whole design process of how I created a working prototype of the project demo and shares insights from my design experience.en
dc.description.abstractgeneralImmunology Virtual Reality is an immersive educational virtual reality experience in which a user takes on the role of an immune cell and migrates to fight off pathogen invasions at an infection site in the human body. It explores levels of interactivity and storytelling in educational VR and their impact on learning.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Fine Artsen
dc.format.mediumETDen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/83948en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United Statesen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/en
dc.subjectimmersive virtual realityen
dc.subjectvirtual environmenten
dc.subjectEducationen
dc.subjectimmunologyen
dc.subjectmicrobiologyen
dc.subjectScience Educationen
dc.subjectstorytellingen
dc.subjectgame designen
dc.subjectinterdisciplinaryen
dc.subject3D UIen
dc.subject3D interactionen
dc.titleImmunology Virtual Reality (VR): Exploring Educational VR Experience Design for Science Learningen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineCreative Technologiesen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Fine Artsen

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