Title

ViLeArn - A Social XR Platform for Learners and Teachers Built with Reality Stack

Presenter

Florian Kern, Research Assistant

Company

Chair for Human-Computer Interaction, University of Würzburg

Head of Chair

Prof. Dr. Marc Erich Latoschik
Over 25 years expertise in the HCI field

HCI Group

4 Professors
46 Employees
19 Student Workers

Research

Perceptual Computing
Virtual, Mixed & Augmented Reality
Articifial Intelligence

Applications

Avatars, Agents & Roboters
Social Interaction
Training
(E-)Learning
Therapy
Multimodal Interfaces
Games & Gamification
Digital Heritage

XR Hub Bavaria

Strengthen Bavaria as a media and business location for Extended Reality (XR)
3 Locations: Würzburg, München, and Nürnberg
Funded by the Bavarian State Ministry of Digital Affairs

Educational Technology is the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using and managing appropriate technological processes and resources.

– Reflections on the 2008 AECT Definitions of the Field (Richey (2008))

ViLeArn

Virtual Situated Learning and Teaching with Avatars and Agents in Social Cyberspace

Cooperation

Chair for School Pedagogy
Prof. Dr. Silke Grafe

Funding

Ministry for Education and Research

Website & Publication

https://vilearn.info
Latoschik et al. (2019)

Breaking Bad Behavior

VR for training classroom management skills
Companion tool for primary and secondary student teachers

Cooperation

Chair for School Pedagogy
Prof. Dr. Silke Grafe

Publications

Latoschik et al. (2016)
Lugrin et al. (2016)

VR Seminar Session

Wintersemester 21/22

Duration

8 Meetings, each Wednesday
1 Teacher
12 Student Teachers

Physical Space

Remotely from home (Germany)

Equipment

Oculus Rift S
High-End VR Laptops

VR Seminar Session

Wintersemester 21/22

Equipment

Oculus Rift S
High-End VR Laptops

Video Tutorials

Hardware
Software
In-Game (VR)

Live VR Demo Session

Application Features in ViLeArn

Download: https://go.uniwue.de/hci-vilearn-edtech
Seminar: edtech-seminar-demo
Expiration: 2011-02-03

Application Features

Lobby Menu
Private Room with VR Tutorial
Social Room
Interaction with the Tablet
- Laserpointer, Finger, Stylus
- Decker Presentation
- Excalidraw (Draw/Keyb.)
- Countdown Timer
Presentation Sharing
Breakout Rooms

Stylus: OTSS (Kern et al. (2021))

Cooperation Partners

Internal: ViLeArn More, CoTeach, ViaVR, Vitras, WueDive, Digillabs
External: University of Munich, Augsburg, Dortmund

The Reality Stack ≡

Projects share the same requirements
Use synergies of projects
Conceptual Design and Developed Components

Okay, thank you very much for following my VR demonstration. The Vilearn application will be extended and improved continuously. This is also supported by our growing partnerships with internal projects (Vilearn, CoTeach, WueDive, Digillabs, ViaVR) and also external Universities (TUM, AUG, DO). If you also interested in our application, we are happy to here from you.
If we are coming back to the features of ViLeArn which I presented previously, it is noticeable, that many other projects share the same requirements. Therefore, we started to conceptualize and develop the Reality Stack.
The idea of the Reality Stack is to use synergies of our projects and provide reusable and extendable software components.
Great examples for this are the embodiment component and the network component.
Therefore, the Reality Stack will help us to understand concepts, recognize synergies, and to quickly provide new software applications with varying features.

Thank you very much for your attention!

ViLeArn - A Social XR Platform for Learners and Teachers Built with Reality Stack

Florian Kern (florian.kern@uni-wuerzburg.de)

HCI Group, University of Würzburg
https://hci.uni-wuerzburg.de/

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References

Kern, Florian, Peter Kullmann, Elisabeth Ganal, Kristof Korwisi, René Stingl, Florian Niebling, and Marc Erich Latoschik. 2021. “Off-the-Shelf Stylus: Using XR Devices for Handwriting and Sketching on Physically Aligned Virtual Surfaces.” Frontiers in Virtual Reality 2: 69. doi:10.3389/frvir.2021.684498.

Latoschik, Marc Erich, Florian Kern, Jan-Philipp Stauffert, Andrea Bartl, Mario Botsch, and Jean-Luc Lugrin. 2019. “Not Alone Here?! Scalability and User Experience of Embodied Ambient Crowds in Distributed Social Virtual Reality.” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 25 (5): 2134–44. doi:10.1109/TVCG.2019.2899250.

Latoschik, Marc Erich, Jean-Luc Lugrin, Michael Habel, Daniel Roth, Christian Seufert, and Silke Grafe. 2016. “Breaking Bad Behavior: Immersive Training of Class Room Management.” In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, 317–18. VRST ’16. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi:10.1145/2993369.2996308.

Lugrin, Jean-Luc, Marc Erich Latoschik, Michael Habel, Daniel Roth, Christian Seufert, and Silke Grafe. 2016. “Breaking Bad Behaviors: A New Tool for Learning Classroom Management Using Virtual Reality.” Frontiers in ICT 3: 26. doi:10.3389/fict.2016.00026.

Richey, Rita C. 2008. “Reflections on the 2008 AECT Definitions of the Field.” TechTrends 52: 24–25.