Print Email Facebook Twitter State of the art of using virtual reality technologies in built environment education Title State of the art of using virtual reality technologies in built environment education Author Keenaghan, G. Horvath, I. Faculty Industrial Design Engineering Department Design Engineering Date 2014-05-19 Abstract This paper reports on our major findings concerning the application of virtual reality technologies in built environment education (BEE). In addition to an analysis of the current trends and developments in current virtual reality technologies and systems, it also evaluates their educational usability and effectiveness in the mirror of the literature. First, a reasoning model is introduced, which is used as a structuring skeleton of the paper. The context of the analysis is learning experience of BEE students who tend to form individual perspective and expectations. When the experience and perspective of the virtual reality developer differs from that of the user the virtual environment-based learning may result in a perceived negative experience because of a strong focus on the reality of the virtual tasks. We found that the literature does not specifically address the issue of learning experience when different virtual reality technologies are used in BEE, but it does emphasize the importance of usability evaluation to enhance the effectiveness of applications. It was also found that stimulation of learners plays an important role and this explains why conventional single-person oriented (HMD-based) and multi-person oriented (CAVE-based) solutions are complemented with game-based stimulation. Future research should consider how game-based simulation can be applied in virtual reality learning environment in the context of BEE. Subject usabilityvirtual realitybuilt environment educationhuman interactiongamificationlearning experience To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:66278400-aa14-43ad-af4c-abc647c2a779 Publisher Delft University of Technology ISBN 978-94-6186-177-1 Source TMCE 2014: Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Tools and Methods of Competitive Engineering, Budapest, Hungary, 19-23 May 2014 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2014 Organizing Committee of TMCE Files PDF 309588.pdf 436.87 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:66278400-aa14-43ad-af4c-abc647c2a779/datastream/OBJ/view