Joint spaces between schools and museums via virtual worlds: a case study

  • Authors:
  • Luis A. Hernández Ibáñez;Viviana Barneche Naya

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña, Spain;Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2012 ACM workshop on User experience in e-learning and augmented technologies in education
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this work, we describe the results in the study of the user experience of three groups of children within a flexible virtual space that connects school and museum. This integrated educational space includes not only the exploration of exhibition areas but also includes telepresence talks on the part of museum personnel, simulations, educational work in the form of virtual quests, all within a multi-user virtual environment based on OpenSim and simultaneously accessible from the different institutions involved in the experiment. The results obtained could serve as a starting point for a future implementation of this platform for connecting educational institutions and museums across the entire city.