How Academics and the Public Experienced Immersive Virtual Reality for Geo-Education

• Published in: Geosciences
• Main Authors: Bonali, Fabio Luca, Russo, Elena, Vitello, Fabio, Antoniou, Varvara, Marchese, Fabio, Fallati, Luca, Bracchi, Valentina Alice, Corti, Noemi, Savini, Alessandra, Whitworth, Malcolm, Drymoni, Kyriaki, Pasquaré Mariotto, Federico, Nomikou, Paraskevi, Sciacca, Eva, Bressan, Sofia, Falsaperla, Susanna, Reitano, Danilo, van Wyk de Vries, Benjamin, Krokos, Mel, Panieri, Giuliana, Stiller-Reeve, Mathew Alexander, Vizzari, Giuseppe, Becciani, Ugo, Tibaldi, Alessandro
• Other Authors: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Milan Bicocca, Italy, INAF-Istituto di Radioastronomia, Bologna, Italy, Department of Geology and Geoenvironment, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, Red Sea Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, School of the Environment, Geography and Geosciences, University of Portsmouth, UK, Department of Human and Innovation Sciences, Insubria University, Como, Italy, INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania, Italy, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Sezione OE, Catania, Italia, Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, Observatoire du Physique du Globed, Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont, France, School of Creative Technologies, University of Portsmouth, UK, CAGE, Center for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, The Arctic University of Tromsø, Norway, Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, University of Milan Bicocca, Italy, Center for Climate and Energy Transformation, University of Bergen, Norway
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI 2022
• Subjects: immersive virtual reality; geology; photogrammetry; education; Iceland; Santorini; Etna; 04.04. Geology; 05.03. Educational; History of Science; Public Issues; 05.04. Instrumentation and techniques of general interest; 04.08. Volcanology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2122/15265; https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences12010009

Immersive virtual reality can potentially open up interesting geological sites to students, academics and others who may not have had the opportunity to visit such sites previously. We study how users perceive the usefulness of an immersive virtual reality approach applied to Earth Sciences teaching...