The Attention of Students in the Metaverse: Practical Application

Araujo, Layane1; Soares, Marcelo M.2,3; Tori, Romero4; Zhang, Yijing5

10.1007/978-3-031-35708-4_1

2023

12th International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability (DUXU) Held as Part of the 25th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII)

0302-9743

1611-3349

978-3-031-35707-7

DESIGN, USER EXPERIENCE, AND USABILITY, DUXU 2023, PT IV

14033

JUL 23-28, 2023

null,Copenhagen,DENMARK

GEWERBESTRASSE 11, CHAM, CH-6330, SWITZERLAND

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG

It is known that the new global paradigms have been modifying the teaching and learning relationships. Soon, educational activities broke the boundaries of the physical classroom and headed to the virtual field, like the metaverse. Knowing that attention plays a fundamental role in the construction of knowledge, a pilot experiment was carried out with a class of undergraduate design students from the Southern University of Science and Technology of China in the teaching space of the metaverse hosted in the Frame VR software, with the objective of to identify the students' attention during the class given. To assess attention, images correlated to the class content and 3D models outside the classroom at specific moments of the class were presented. As a result, students performed better in terms of focused attention while watching videos in class, as they did not identify which 3D models were placed outside the room for them to identify at those times. Regarding the images, most students did not respond to the teacher's commands to look at screens and identify the images presented, proving that they did not have focused attention in class at these times. However, all students reported that they found the experience unprecedented and that the immersive environment of the metaverse has elements that divert the attention of the class. This article aims to present a guiding experience of a doctoral thesis in progress in the Design course at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, which proposes to present ergonomic design guidelines to assist teaching activities that take place in metaverse spaces. This experience will serve as a guide for future experiments to follow in other teaching scenarios in the metaverse and with different audiences.

Design Teaching Environment Attention Metaverse

其他

英语

CPCI-S

Computer Science

Computer Science, Cybernetics ; Computer Science, Information Systems ; Computer Science, Software Engineering ; Computer Science, Theory & Methods

WOS:001206155700001

Web of Science

1.Univ Fed Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil
2.SUSTech Southern Univ Sci & Technol, Shenzhen, Peoples R China
3.Univ Fed Pernambuco, Postgrad Program Design, Recife, PE, Brazil
4.Univ Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
5.Southern Univ Sci & Technol, Shenzhen, Peoples R China

Araujo, Layane,Soares, Marcelo M.,Tori, Romero,et al. The Attention of Students in the Metaverse: Practical Application[C]. GEWERBESTRASSE 11, CHAM, CH-6330, SWITZERLAND:SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG,2023.