The Design Interactions Lab and OzU VR Lab presented their recent research “Exploring the Spatial Thinking Process in Physical and Virtual Realities through Child-Object Interaction: A Case of Hand Tracking in VR” at the Euromersive Turkey Research Showcase. Interacting with objects is an integral part of developing spatial thinking skills in children. These sort of Interactions in virtual reality contexts is yet to be explored.
The research investigates how do children’s interaction with objects change in physical and virtual environments? In this light the team is comparing physical environments with the usage of VR Controllers and Hand-tracking.
Researchers: Gökçe Elif Baykal, Ali Leylekoğlu, Bora Sezer and Işıl Oygür İlhan
Exploring the Spatial Thinking Process in Physical and Virtual Realities through Child-Object Interaction
Euromersive is a community of XR researchers, developers, and artists supporting XR initiatives throughout Europe. The branch in Turkey is holding our second Research Showcase to have teams from schools and universities throughout Europe share their work with a wider audience and expand their network of colleagues and supporters. The event was hosted by Lance Powell, CTO of VEDX Solutions. It took place in the AltSpaceVR platform.
Other speaker presentations were as follows: “The Effect of Spatial Qualities, Openness and Complexity, on the Performance of Human Cognitive Tasks within Immersive Virtual Environments” by Pierre François / “Heterotopia of Compensation in Metaverse” by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Feride Zeynep Güder and “Rendering Technologies of Unity for XR” by Ismail Çendik.
Event Recording can be found below:
Event link: https://account.altvr.com/events/1933381039586017359