How Academics and the Public Experienced Immersive Virtual Reality for Geo-Education
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...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/24482 2023-05-15T16:50:08+02:00 How Academics and the Public Experienced Immersive Virtual Reality for Geo-Education Bonali, Fabio L. Russo, Elena Vitello, Fabio Antoniou, Varvara Marchese, Fabio Fallati, Luca Bracchi, Valentina Corti, Noemi Savini, Alessandra Whitworth, Malcom Drymoni, Kyriaki Mariotto, Federico Pasquaré Nomikou, Paraskevi V. Sciacca, Eva Bressan, Sofia Falsaperla, Susanna Reitano, Danilo van Wyk de Vries, Benjamin Krokos, Mel Panieri, Giuliana Stiller-Reeve, Matthew Alexander Vizzari, Giuseppe Becciani, Ugo Tibaldi, Alessandro 2021-12-24 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/24482 https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences12010009 eng eng MDPI Geosciences Norges forskningsråd: 223259 Bonali, Russo, Vitello, Antoniou, Marchese, Fallati, Bracchi, Corti, Savini A, Whitworth, Drymoni, Mariotto, Nomikou, Sciacca, Bressan, Falsaperla, Reitano, van Wyk de Vries B, Krokos, Panieri G, Stiller-Reeve, Vizzari, Becciani, Tibaldi. How Academics and the Public Experienced Immersive Virtual Reality for Geo-Education. Geosciences. 2022;12(1) FRIDAID 1978584 doi:10.3390/geosciences12010009 2076-3263 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/24482 openAccess Copyright 2022 The Author(s) Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed publishedVersion 2021 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences12010009 2022-03-23T23:58:04Z 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 and communication. During nine immersive virtual reality-based events held in 2018 and 2019 in various locations (Vienna in Austria, Milan and Catania in Italy, Santorini in Greece), a large number of visitors had the opportunity to navigate, in immersive mode, across geological landscapes reconstructed by cutting-edge, unmanned aerial system-based photogrammetry techniques. The reconstructed virtual geological environments are specifically chosen virtual geosites, from Santorini (Greece), the North Volcanic Zone (Iceland), and Mt. Etna (Italy). Following the user experiences, we collected 459 questionnaires, with a large spread in participant age and cultural background. We find that the majority of respondents would be willing to repeat the immersive virtual reality experience, and importantly, most of the students and Earth Science academics who took part in the navigation confirmed the usefulness of this approach for geo-education purposes. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Etna ENVELOPE(-19.191,-19.191,63.706,63.706) Geosciences 12 1 9 |
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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 and communication. During nine immersive virtual reality-based events held in 2018 and 2019 in various locations (Vienna in Austria, Milan and Catania in Italy, Santorini in Greece), a large number of visitors had the opportunity to navigate, in immersive mode, across geological landscapes reconstructed by cutting-edge, unmanned aerial system-based photogrammetry techniques. The reconstructed virtual geological environments are specifically chosen virtual geosites, from Santorini (Greece), the North Volcanic Zone (Iceland), and Mt. Etna (Italy). Following the user experiences, we collected 459 questionnaires, with a large spread in participant age and cultural background. We find that the majority of respondents would be willing to repeat the immersive virtual reality experience, and importantly, most of the students and Earth Science academics who took part in the navigation confirmed the usefulness of this approach for geo-education purposes. |
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Bonali, Fabio L. Russo, Elena Vitello, Fabio Antoniou, Varvara Marchese, Fabio Fallati, Luca Bracchi, Valentina Corti, Noemi Savini, Alessandra Whitworth, Malcom Drymoni, Kyriaki Mariotto, Federico Pasquaré Nomikou, Paraskevi V. Sciacca, Eva Bressan, Sofia Falsaperla, Susanna Reitano, Danilo van Wyk de Vries, Benjamin Krokos, Mel Panieri, Giuliana Stiller-Reeve, Matthew Alexander Vizzari, Giuseppe Becciani, Ugo Tibaldi, Alessandro |
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Bonali, Fabio L. Russo, Elena Vitello, Fabio Antoniou, Varvara Marchese, Fabio Fallati, Luca Bracchi, Valentina Corti, Noemi Savini, Alessandra Whitworth, Malcom Drymoni, Kyriaki Mariotto, Federico Pasquaré Nomikou, Paraskevi V. Sciacca, Eva Bressan, Sofia Falsaperla, Susanna Reitano, Danilo van Wyk de Vries, Benjamin Krokos, Mel Panieri, Giuliana Stiller-Reeve, Matthew Alexander Vizzari, Giuseppe Becciani, Ugo Tibaldi, Alessandro How Academics and the Public Experienced Immersive Virtual Reality for Geo-Education |
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Bonali, Fabio L. Russo, Elena Vitello, Fabio Antoniou, Varvara Marchese, Fabio Fallati, Luca Bracchi, Valentina Corti, Noemi Savini, Alessandra Whitworth, Malcom Drymoni, Kyriaki Mariotto, Federico Pasquaré Nomikou, Paraskevi V. Sciacca, Eva Bressan, Sofia Falsaperla, Susanna Reitano, Danilo van Wyk de Vries, Benjamin Krokos, Mel Panieri, Giuliana Stiller-Reeve, Matthew Alexander Vizzari, Giuseppe Becciani, Ugo Tibaldi, Alessandro |
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How Academics and the Public Experienced Immersive Virtual Reality for Geo-Education |
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How Academics and the Public Experienced Immersive Virtual Reality for Geo-Education |
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