The Potential of Virtual Reality for Computer Science Education -Engaging Students through Immersive Visualizations

摘要: Popular problems of Computer Science Education that are often solved using algorithms include various number sorting tasks. Sorting have the potential to emphasize powerful programming paradigms and also start discussions about algorithm complexity. Research has shown hands-on activities analogies fun instead tasks can foster learning in this area many different ways. In times when much teaching takes place online, implementing such unplugged become difficult. Visualizations animations help achieve outcomes by making these relatively abstract phenomena more concrete. particular, virtual reality environments provide new forms for interacting with visualizations might well motivational, emotional, perceptual factors an influence on processes. This paper investigates differences between subjective variables a web application VR algorithms. The results produced initial indicators learners experience higher presence, absorption, flow, psychological immersion positive emotions setting compared desktop setting.