EARLY HEARING DETECTION AND INTERVENTION VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
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5/21/2018 | 9:30 AM - 9:45 AM | A VIRTUAL DIORAMA OF NUTRIENT SPIRALING | 320
A VIRTUAL DIORAMA OF NUTRIENT SPIRALING
The field of science visualization has recently added the medium of virtual reality (VR), which offers an enormous, yet largely unexplored “expressive landscape” for presenting basic science concepts in a tangible, naturalistic manner – promising a new “golden age of illustration” akin to the advent of photography. VR’s ability to provide a firsthand sense of experience could transform classroom education into something more like a field excursion rather than a bookish exercise in which layers of abstraction frequently veil the subject. And yet, there is great potential for VR to misinform the user, because the medium is compelling enough to make even inaccurate content seem real. Therefore, adapting science content for educational VR requires care, whereby content is simplified enough to fit the programming environment, yet accurate enough to convey a meaningful level of understanding. Here, we present our pilot attempt to adapt a spatial but largely abstract stream ecology concept to VR for education: namely, nutrient spiraling, presented as a navigable virtual stream reach. We explain the visual devices and metaphors used to host this content in VR, and invite feedback and critique from the professional freshwater science community.
- Water Quality
- Algae
- Biofilm
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Victor Leshyk
(), Northern Arizona University, victorleshyk@esedona.net;
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Benjamin Koch
(), Northern Arizona University, ben.koch@nau.edu;
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Bruce Hungate
(), Northern Arizona University, bruce.hungate@nau.edu;
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Jane Marks
(), Northern Arizona University, jane.marks@nau.edu;
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