The Interactive Virtual Training (IVT) is multi-institution interdisciplinary research project funded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), a part of the U.S. Department of Education (see below for team information).
Our research goals are to design, program, and evaluate the effectiveness of early career teachers’ interactions with a 3D virtual classroom occupied by 3D interactive virtual students simulating disruptive children, as a training practice opportunity for novice teachers on how to manage a disrupted classroom before the novice start teaching. The traning is tailored to simulate classroom from poor neighborhoods, one helps to learn by interacting with 1st-2nd grade virtual students, and another helps with 6th-7th grade students.
Our research goals are to design, program, and evaluate the effectiveness of early career teachers’ interactions with a 3D virtual classroom occupied by 3D interactive virtual students simulating disruptive children, as a training practice opportunity for novice teachers on how to manage a disrupted classroom before the novice start teaching. The traning is tailored to simulate classroom from poor neighborhoods, one helps to learn by interacting with 1st-2nd grade virtual students, and another helps with 6th-7th grade students.
Technical challenges are to design and implement a 3D virtual environment in which:
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Psychological challenges are to:
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Tour of the classroom
Below, you can tour the 3D classroom, empty or occupied with 1st grade students. To move around the scene, use your keyboard Arrow Keys keys “W”, “A”, “S”, and “D”. The Arrow Keys rotate the camera, whereas the “W”, “A”, “S”, and “D” enable you to accelerate in different directions:
- the “W” key to move forward,
- the “A” key to go left,
- the “S” key to go back, and
- the “D” key to go right.
1st grade classroom customized with furniture, school supplies
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Room with 1st grade students
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Meet the IVT interdisciplinary research team
IVT is a multi-institution interdisciplinary research project between a team of researchers in:
Main Contacts
Computer science teamDr. Christine Lisetti
Principal Investigator (Technical) Associate Professor School of Computing and Information Sciences Director, Affective Social Computing Laboratory Florida International University Dr. Mihai Polceanu Research Associate Affective Social Computing Laboratory Florida International University Dr. Cedric Buche Associate Professor Lab-STICC / CNRS Équipe IHSEV - Interaction Humain Système et Environnement Virtuel CERV - Centre Européen de Réalité Virtuelle, FRANCE |
Psychology and Education teamDr. Elisa Shernoff
Principal Investigator Assistant Professor Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology Rutgers University Dr. Stacey Frazier Associate Professor Department of Psychology Florida International University Industrial and systems engineering team Dr. Joe Gabbard Human Factors Engineering and Ergonomics Associate Professor Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering Virginia Tech |