Immunology Virtual Reality (VR): Exploring Educational VR Experience Design for Science Learning

Immunology Virtual Reality (VR) project is an immersive educational virtual reality experience that intends to provide an informal learning experience of specific immunology concepts to college freshmen in the Department of Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech (VT). The project is an interdisciplinary endeavor between my collaboration between people from different domain areas at VT: Creative Technologies, Education, Biological Sciences, and Computer Sciences. This thesis elaborates on the whole design process of how I created a working prototype of the project demo and shares insights from my design experience.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Fine Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Creative Technologies

Department dc:contributor.department

Art and Art History

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2018

Author dc:creator

• Zhang, Lei

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Tucker, Thomas J.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Duer, Zachary R.
• Dane, Webster

• immersive virtual reality
• virtual environment
• Education
• immunology
• microbiology
• Science Education
• storytelling
• game design
• interdisciplinary
• 3D UI
• 3D interaction

Statement dc:rights

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10919/83948

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/83948