Project Number
- 199
Title
- Project ScienceSpace
Description
- Investigation of physical immersion and multisensory perception in enhanced science education.
Contact
- R. Bowen Loftin
Affiliation
- University of Houston
Address
- Virtual Environment Technology Laboratory
- 4800 Calhoun, MS CSC-3475
- Houston, Texas 77204-3475
- 4800 Calhoun, MS CSC-3475
- bowen@uh.edu
WWW
Year
- 1997
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 97 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- This project explores the utility of physical immersion and multisensory perception to enhance science education.
- ScienceSpace enables learners to experience "difficult to teach" science phenomena (such as relativity and quantum mechanics) to support an instinctive, qualitative understanding as a motivation and basis for future study. ScienceSpace currently consists of three worlds that address Newtonian mechanics, electrostatics, and molecular structure.
- Objectives of Project ScienceSpace include:
- - investigating whether sensorially immersive, constructivist learning can remediate typical misconceptions in mental models of reality held by many students
- - studying whether mastery of traditionally difficult subjects is enhanced through learning-by-doing
Sight
- visualization graphics workstations
Sound
- internal audio
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 3 - Functional, Reproducable, Adoption
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 303 - simulator / simulation
Secondary
- 306 - education
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
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