Mobile Virtual Reality as an Educational Platform: A Pilot Study on the Impact of Immersion and Positive Emotion Induction in the Learning Process

Elena Olmos-Raya; Janaina Ferreira-Cavalcanti; Manuel Contero; M. Concepción Castellanos; Irene Alice Chicchi Giglioli; Mariano Alcañiz

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Elena Olmos-Raya ¹, Janaina Ferreira-Cavalcanti ¹, Manuel Contero ¹ ^* , M. Concepción Castellanos ¹, Irene Alice Chicchi Giglioli ¹, Mariano Alcañiz ¹

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¹ I3B. Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, SPAIN^* Corresponding Author

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The purpose of this study is to evaluate the influence of emotional induction and level of immersion on knowledge acquisition and motivation. Two conditions were used for immersion modulation: a high immersive condition, which consisted of the viewing of educational content through a head-mounted-display; and a low immersive condition, which was achieved through direct viewing on a tablet. The emotional conditions, created through video simulation, consisted of a positive versus neutral mood induction procedure. The participants were 56 high school students enrolled on a social science course. The results indicate a significant effect of the positive emotion/high immersive condition in knowledge acquisition while positive emotion induction had a positive effect on the interest subscale of the motivation assessment tool used for both immersive conditions.

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immersion
emotion induction
motivation
knowledge acquisition
head-mounted display

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EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, 2018, Volume 14, Issue 6, 2045-2057

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Olmos-Raya, E., Ferreira-Cavalcanti, J., Contero, M., Castellanos, M. C., Giglioli, I. A. C., & Alcañiz, M. (2018). Mobile Virtual Reality as an Educational Platform: A Pilot Study on the Impact of Immersion and Positive Emotion Induction in the Learning Process. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 14(6), 2045-2057. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/85874

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Olmos-Raya E, Ferreira-Cavalcanti J, Contero M, Castellanos MC, Giglioli IAC, Alcañiz M. Mobile Virtual Reality as an Educational Platform: A Pilot Study on the Impact of Immersion and Positive Emotion Induction in the Learning Process. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2018;14(6):2045-57. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/85874

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Olmos-Raya E, Ferreira-Cavalcanti J, Contero M, Castellanos MC, Giglioli IAC, Alcañiz M. Mobile Virtual Reality as an Educational Platform: A Pilot Study on the Impact of Immersion and Positive Emotion Induction in the Learning Process. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2018;14(6), 2045-2057. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/85874

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Olmos-Raya, Elena, Janaina Ferreira-Cavalcanti, Manuel Contero, M. Concepción Castellanos, Irene Alice Chicchi Giglioli, and Mariano Alcañiz. "Mobile Virtual Reality as an Educational Platform: A Pilot Study on the Impact of Immersion and Positive Emotion Induction in the Learning Process". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 2018 14 no. 6 (2018): 2045-2057. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/85874

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Olmos-Raya, E., Ferreira-Cavalcanti, J., Contero, M., Castellanos, M. C., Giglioli, I. A. C., and Alcañiz, M. (2018). Mobile Virtual Reality as an Educational Platform: A Pilot Study on the Impact of Immersion and Positive Emotion Induction in the Learning Process. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 14(6), pp. 2045-2057. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/85874

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Olmos-Raya, Elena et al. "Mobile Virtual Reality as an Educational Platform: A Pilot Study on the Impact of Immersion and Positive Emotion Induction in the Learning Process". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 14, no. 6, 2018, pp. 2045-2057. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/85874