Evaluating user experience in joint activities between schools and museums in virtual worlds

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Evaluating user experience in joint activities between schools and museums in virtual worldsDate
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Barneche Naya, V., Hernández Ibáñez, L.A. Evaluating user experience in joint activities between schools and museums in virtual worlds. Univ Access Inf Soc 14, 389–398 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-014-0367-y
Abstract
[Abstract] The use of virtual worlds in the school is an
extraordinary tool to engage the children in the process of
e-learning. Although one can find many examples that
describe the use of such a technology in teaching regular
educational contents, very few examples replicate other
classical outdoor educational activities such as a visit to a
museum, including the remote interaction with the docents
of the visited institution. In this work, the results of a study
of the user experience of three groups of children within a
flexible virtual space that connects schools and museums
are described and evaluated. This integrated educational
space not only includes the exploration of exhibition areas
but also the telepresence talks on the part of museum
personnel, simulations, educational work in the form of
virtual quests, all within a multi-user virtual environment
based on OpenSim and simultaneously accessible from the
different institutions involved in the experiment. The
results obtained could serve as a starting point for a future
implementation of this platform for connecting educational
institutions and museums across an entire city.
Keywords
User experience
Virtual worlds
Learning environment
Open source
Virtual museums
Virtual worlds
Learning environment
Open source
Virtual museums
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