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To social with social distance: a case study on a VR-enabled graduation celebration amidst the pandemic
This paper introduces a timely case study on a 3D virtual reality-enabled graduation celebration project that provided an alternative approach to celebrating university graduation amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The project was carefully designed with fun, engaging, and interactive activities to compe...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9013491/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35464641 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10055-022-00646-2 |
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description | This paper introduces a timely case study on a 3D virtual reality-enabled graduation celebration project that provided an alternative approach to celebrating university graduation amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The project was carefully designed with fun, engaging, and interactive activities to compensate for the cancelation of the conventional commencement in spring 2020 due to the pandemic. More than 20 graduating students, faculty and staff members participated in a 2-h virtual reality live event appearing as 3D avatars on their own computers. Quantitative and qualitative data collected from 10 participants were analyzed for user experience, cognitive contribution, technology acceptance, and the feasibility. Results revealed that such a project was technologically sound, functionally acceptable, user-friendly, and practically implementable. The results also informed the lessons learned from the current design and the places to improve. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10055-022-00646-2. |
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spelling | pubmed-90134912022-04-18 To social with social distance: a case study on a VR-enabled graduation celebration amidst the pandemic Xu, Xinhao Virtual Real S.I. : Covid-19 This paper introduces a timely case study on a 3D virtual reality-enabled graduation celebration project that provided an alternative approach to celebrating university graduation amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The project was carefully designed with fun, engaging, and interactive activities to compensate for the cancelation of the conventional commencement in spring 2020 due to the pandemic. More than 20 graduating students, faculty and staff members participated in a 2-h virtual reality live event appearing as 3D avatars on their own computers. Quantitative and qualitative data collected from 10 participants were analyzed for user experience, cognitive contribution, technology acceptance, and the feasibility. Results revealed that such a project was technologically sound, functionally acceptable, user-friendly, and practically implementable. The results also informed the lessons learned from the current design and the places to improve. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10055-022-00646-2. Springer London 2022-04-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9013491/ /pubmed/35464641 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10055-022-00646-2 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2022 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | S.I. : Covid-19 Xu, Xinhao To social with social distance: a case study on a VR-enabled graduation celebration amidst the pandemic |
title | To social with social distance: a case study on a VR-enabled graduation celebration amidst the pandemic |
title_full | To social with social distance: a case study on a VR-enabled graduation celebration amidst the pandemic |
title_fullStr | To social with social distance: a case study on a VR-enabled graduation celebration amidst the pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | To social with social distance: a case study on a VR-enabled graduation celebration amidst the pandemic |
title_short | To social with social distance: a case study on a VR-enabled graduation celebration amidst the pandemic |
title_sort | to social with social distance: a case study on a vr-enabled graduation celebration amidst the pandemic |
topic | S.I. : Covid-19 |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9013491/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35464641 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10055-022-00646-2 |
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