Building note-taking tools to support learning in virtual reality

With the advent of virtual reality (VR) technology, education and learning applications are able to leverage the fully immersive medium to create more hands-on, sophisticated, and engaging interactions. Alongside efforts to build virtual learning environments, note-taking can be reimagined in a virtual space where visual and auditory experiences can be captured and re-experienced. We classify phases as well as affordances of note-taking enabled self-regulated learning to be content capture, review, and modification. We present a first-principles analysis to identify design requirements for virtual note-taking that satisfy the three key functions of note-taking. We will discuss our approach to overcoming technical and design challenges as I detail the implementation of a standalone note-taking module, MemoryTree.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2018

Author dc:creator

• Hong, Erin

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Pattie Maes.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/119554

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/119554