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Virtual Reality for Early Education: A Study

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This paper investigates the use of Virtual Reality (VR) as a tool for cultural heritage learning, using St Andrews Cathedral as the subject matter. As part of a module focused on local history, first year secondary school pupils in a school in the town of St Andrews took part in virtual tours of the Cathedral as it stood in the 14th Century using the Samsung Gear VR, Google Cardboard, Oculus Rift, computer screen and Xbox controller, and answered questions aimed to elicit their experiences with the various systems. The system design and implementation is presented and the findings, observations and lessons learnt from the study are discussed.

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Special thanks to Madras College, Fife, UK.

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  1. School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, UK

    Adeola Fabola & Alan Miller

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  1. University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom

    Colin Allison

  2. INESC TEC and Universidade Aberta, Coimbra, Portugal

    Leonel Morgado

  3. Inst. for Info. System & Comp. System, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

    Johanna Pirker

  4. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA

    Dennis Beck

  5. Salish Kootenai College, Pablo, Montana, USA

    Jonathon Richter

  6. Inst. for Info. System & Comp. System, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

    Christian Gütl

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Fabola, A., Miller, A. (2016). Virtual Reality for Early Education: A Study. In: Allison, C., Morgado, L., Pirker, J., Beck, D., Richter, J., Gütl, C. (eds) Immersive Learning Research Network. iLRN 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 621. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41769-1_5

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