Title
A Collaborative, Immersive Language Learning Environment Using Augmented Panoramic Imagery
Abstract
Augmenting immersive technologies with AI for foreign language learning is a relatively unexplored, multidisciplinary, and complex research paradigm. The Cognitive and Immersive Room at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute facilitates cultural and foreign language learning beyond a traditional classroom setting. Exploration of virtual environments and real-world renderings occur at human-scale by groups of students and teachers simultaneously, without the need for head-mounted displays. Students travel to true-to-life Panoramic Scenes to learn authentic cultural knowledge and practice vocabulary within the same surroundings they would use such knowledge while traveling abroad. Multimodal input allows students to engage with the system through gesture, voice, and spatial positioning, creating a dynamic language learning experience. This work underwent initial assessment in a six-week summer course, AI-Assisted Immersive Chinese, and preliminary qualitative results find a majority of surveyed students indicate the system is useful, engaging, and fun.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.23919/iLRN47897.2020.9155140
2020 6th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN)
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
immersive learning,virtual environment,foreign language,multimodal
Conference
978-1-7281-5226-4
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
2
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Samuel Chabot111.02
Jaimie Drozdal232.87
Matthew Peveler386.69
Yalun Zhou400.34
Hui Su529333.30
Jonas Braasch6216.88