Chapter 11 Assessing the Impact of Virtual Reality on Engineering Students’ Spatial Ability

R. Molina-Carmona, M. L. Pertegal-Felices, A. Jimeno-Morenilla, H. Mora-Mora
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Spatial ability is essential for engineers’ professional performance. Several studies describe it as a skill that can be enhanced using new technologies. Virtual reality (VR) is an emerging technology that is proving very useful for training different skills and improving spatial perception. In this chapter, the authors firstly present some previous works that use VR to train students, mainly in the area of engineering studies, and which demonstrate that VR can improve some aspects of the spatial perception. This study took a group of engineering students who used VR technologies to carry out learning activities designed to improve their spatial perception, which was measured with a widely used spatial ability test. The results obtained confirm that the use of VR technologies can improve students’ spatial perception. This proposal is easily transferable to other educational contexts. On the one hand, it could be implemented to improve spatial ability in other engineering studies, and on the other hand, with simple adaptation, it could be used to enhance other skills.
第11章评估虚拟现实对工科学生空间能力的影响
空间能力对工程师的专业表现至关重要。一些研究将其描述为一种可以使用新技术来增强的技能。虚拟现实(VR)是一项新兴技术,它被证明对训练不同的技能和提高空间感知非常有用。在本章中,作者首先介绍了一些以前使用VR来训练学生的工作,主要是在工程研究领域,这些工作表明VR可以改善空间感知的某些方面。本研究选取了一组使用VR技术的工科学生进行学习活动,旨在提高他们的空间感知能力,并使用广泛使用的空间能力测试来测量。研究结果证实,使用VR技术可以提高学生的空间感知能力。这个建议很容易转移到其他教育环境中。一方面,它可以用于提高其他工程研究中的空间能力,另一方面,通过简单的适应,它可以用于提高其他技能。
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