Paper Info
Title
Tools for Teaching Mining Students in Virtual Reality based on 360°Video Experiences
Abstract
In recent years, Virtual Reality (VR) technology has found their way into higher education. Its power lays in its ability to provide immersive three-dimensional (3D) experiences that help conveying educational content whilst providing rich interaction possibilities. Especially in mining engineering education, VR has high potential to reshape the provided learning content. Field trips, i.e. mine visits, are an integral part of the education and necessary to transfer knowledge to students. However, field trips are time and cost intensive and mines often have tight entry regulations. As a result, the number of field trips is limited. VR-based field trips offer a considerable alternative presupposed they replicate the complex mining environment realistically. In addition, VR mines have the advantage of taking students close to events (e.g. explosions) that are impossible to demonstrate in a real mine. However, generating realistic 3D content for VR still involves complex, and thus time consuming tasks. Therefore, we present the design of a VR Framework for teaching mining students based on 360° video data, its evaluation in three different lectures, and its extension based on the feedback we received from students and teachers from four different universities.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/VRW50115.2020.00096
2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-7281-6533-2
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
15
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kalkofen, Denis135128.66
Shohei Mori22311.00
Tobias Ladinig300.34
Lea Daling400.68
Anas Abdelrazeq501.01
Markus Ebner600.34
Manuel Ortega700.34
Susanne Feiel800.34
Sebastian Gabl900.34
Taras Shepel1000.34
James Tibbett1100.34
Teemu Henrikki Laine129513.31
Michael Hitch1300.34
Carsten Drebenstedt1400.34
Peter Moser1500.34