DATA-DRIVEN FRAMEWORK FOR AN ONLINE 3D IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONS
Ali Reza Mohammadi Arya, Nuket Savaskan Nowlan, Nicholas Sauriol · 2010
This paper addresses the issue of online education through 3D avatar-based virtual environments, with focus on features such as telemetrics, immersiveness, content presentation tools, and web integration. We provide the outline of a joint project by Carleton University and Algonquin College in Ottawa, Canada, aimed at providing an immersive online learning solution to enable emergency workers from different disciplines to learn the necessary skills to handle domestic violence emergency scenarios effectively. To accomplish this task, a tool was used to enable online real-time immersive learning via simulated 3D avatar based collaboration in real-time via a web-browser. In addition to providing a rich environment for learning, this tool affords us access to significant telemetric data that is presented here and may be used for further research into learning and collaboration research. Our methodology, experience, and early results are captured and presented as well as future possibilities.