Learning with simulated virtual classmates: Effects of social-related configurations on students’ visual attention and learning experiences in an immersive virtual reality classroom

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Highlights：

• Peer effects in an immersive virtual reality (IVR) classroom with 24 simulated virtual classmates as social counterparts

• Different social-related IVR classroom configurations regarding students' position, avatar visualization, and peer behavior

• Large-scale eye-tracking data set to describe sixth graders' visual attention during instruction in the IVR classroom

• Social-related IVR configuration features affect students' visual attention distribution during instruction

• Gaze-based attention networks show relationships to students' interest and learning in the IVR classroom

摘要

•Peer effects in an immersive virtual reality (IVR) classroom with 24 simulated virtual classmates as social counterparts•Different social-related IVR classroom configurations regarding students' position, avatar visualization, and peer behavior•Large-scale eye-tracking data set to describe sixth graders' visual attention during instruction in the IVR classroom•Social-related IVR configuration features affect students' visual attention distribution during instruction•Gaze-based attention networks show relationships to students' interest and learning in the IVR classroom

论文关键词：Immersive virtual reality,Classroom simulation,Peer effects,Visual attention,Network analysis,Eye-tracking

论文评审过程：Received 26 October 2021, Revised 17 March 2022, Accepted 22 March 2022, Available online 26 March 2022, Version of Record 5 April 2022.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107282