November 27 (2021) Meeting (VR Day)
We would like to thank all the speakers for the wonderful presentations, and all the participants who contributed to a successful meeting!
In the Photo:
Mehrasa Alizadeh (Presenter 1); Eric Hawkinson (Presenter 2)
Yu Kanazawa (Coordinator / Event host)
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Pre-event announcement below
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Date: Saturday, November 27th (2021)
Time: 13:30-16:30 (Japan Standard Time (JST): UTC+9)
Venue: Zoom (Online registration is needed.)
Fee: Free - all welcome!!
Please use the following link to register:
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Presentation1
Engaging Students with Social WebVR: Ideas for the Language Classroom
by Mehrasa Alizadeh
Assistant Professor, Osaka University
Presentation2
International and Cultural Exchange with Immersive Technology
by Eric Hawkinson
Learning Futurist; Associate Professor, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies
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Presentation1 details
Presenter1 Bio:
Mehrasa Alizadeh is an assistant professor at the Cybermedia Center, Osaka University. She conducts collaborative research on the use of multimodal learning analytics to support learners in face-to-face and remote learning settings. Mehrasa is interested in immersive learning and virtual reality for language education.
Abstract:
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed many challenges to teachers in terms of student engagement. In order to engage students in online classes and create opportunities for effective collaboration, the presenter will introduce Mozilla Hubs, an immersive social WebVR platform. This free browser-based platform allows teachers to create private virtual environments in which the teacher and students represented by avatars can communicate orally and via text chat, share 2D and 3D media, and engage in embodied group or pair activities. Mozilla Hubs can be used in combination with Zoom or other video-conferencing apps in language classes to encourage students’ active participation in a stress-free environment with educational affordances for collaborative learning.
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Presentation2 details
Presenter2 Bio:
Eric is a learning futurist, tinkering with and designing technologies that may better inform the future of teaching and learning. Eric is president and research coordinator of MAVR, a research group working in immersive technologies for teaching and learning. Eric's day job is at the Kyoto University of Foreign Studies where he teaches courses and conducts research on issues related to technology in tourism and education. Eric also leads a team of interactive media designers for TEDxKyoto. His passion project, ARientation is an award winning, free-to-use, privacy-by-design augmented learning platform to rapidly prototype augmented learning environments, also aiming to spread awareness of increasingly aggressive data collection models using immersive technology. Eric's other projects have included augmented tourism rallies, AR community art exhibitions, mixed reality escape rooms, and other experiments in immersive technology.
Abstract:
Faced with the challenge of empty classrooms, borders closed to tourists, and online learning; learning futurist Eric Hawkinson conceived the my hometown project that enables students anywhere in the world to create online virtual tours to their hometowns, giving them valuable skills, and enabling new human connections.
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(Future Meeting Schedule)
・Sunday, January 23rd, 2022
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