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An Educational Virtual Environment for Studying Physics Concept in High Schools

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Advances in Web-Based Learning – ICWL 2005 (ICWL 2005)

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Virtual Reality has been applied in many fields such as scientific visualization, manufacturing, architecture, entertainment, education and training. In this paper, we present a virtual educational environment for studying some abstract concept in physics. With this environment, middle school students are able to study the abstract concept such as relative motion, and to make themselves construct their knowledge of the field. Experimental results show the efficiency of our method.

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  1. Educational Technology Department, Education Science College, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210097, China

    Ruwei Yun & Yi Li

  2. State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China

    Zhigeng Pan

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  1. Ruwei Yun
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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Durham, South Road, DH1 3LE, Durham, UK

    Rynson W. H. Lau

  2. Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

    Qing Li

  3. Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, P.O. Box

    Ronnie Cheung

  4. Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Wenyin Liu

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Yun, R., Pan, Z., Li, Y. (2005). An Educational Virtual Environment for Studying Physics Concept in High Schools. In: Lau, R.W.H., Li, Q., Cheung, R., Liu, W. (eds) Advances in Web-Based Learning – ICWL 2005. ICWL 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3583. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11528043_33

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  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

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