Do learners experience spatial and social presence in interactive environments based on 360-degree panoramas? A pilot study and future research agenda

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Beitragende

Abstract

Virtual learning spaces hold the potential to spatially situate learning and make learners feel like actually being in a real physical learning environment. A number of pilot studies have demonstrated that 360-degree panorama based interactive learning environments are capable of promoting knowledge/competence acquirement and eliciting presence experiences on a similar or even superior level than to pen-and-paper materials, physical learning environments, and three-dimensionally modeled virtual realities while requiring fewer resources to produce. However, this rather novel learning format has not yet been empirically investigated in depth, for example with regard to learners’ specific feelings of spatial and social presence during use. To address this issue, we conducted a case study (N = 44) to provide in-depth insight by use of a virtual learning environment for real estate training. Results show that learners experienced a rather low to medium level of spatial and social presence whereby perceptions varied between both between the subdimensions of social presence and among individuals. These findings lead to an agenda for future research to examine three major relationships, that is the influence of both 360-degree panorama based interactive learning environments’ design and learners’ individual differences on perceived presence, as well as the interrelation between the elicited amount of presence and learning outcomes in interactive 360-degree-panorama-based education.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
TitelCommunities in New Media. Digitality and Diversity Overcoming Barriers with Digital Transformation - Proceedings of 25th Conference GeNeMe
Redakteure/-innenThomas Kohler, Eric Schoop, Nina Kahnwald, Ralph Sonntag
ErscheinungsortDresden
Herausgeber (Verlag)TUDpress/Thelem Universitätsverlag
Seiten218-227
Seitenumfang10
ISBN (elektronisch)9783959082419
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2022
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Publikationsreihe

ReiheGemeinschaften in Neuen Medien

Konferenz

TitelJahreskonferenz Gemeinschaften in Neuen Medien 2022
UntertitelDigitalität und Diversität: Mit digitaler Transformation Barrieren überwinden!?
KurztitelGeNeMe'22
Veranstaltungsnummer25
Dauer5 - 7 Oktober 2022
OrtTechnische Universität Dresden
StadtDresden
LandDeutschland

Externe IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-3718-0645/work/142245837

Schlagworte

Schlagwörter

  • Virtuelle Lernumgebungen, 360-Grad-Panorama, Presence, Social Presence, Spatial Presence