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VR has a noteworthy educational potential by providing immersive and collaborative environments. As an alternative but cost-effective way of delivering realistic environments in VR, using 360-degree videos in immersive VR (VR videos) received more attention. Although many studies reported positive learning experiences with VR video, little is known about how collaborative learning performs on VR … Read more

Abstract: VR has received increased attention as an educational tool, especially with the emergence of the Metaverse. Most prior research on educational VR reports on applications or systems designed for specified educational or training objectives. It is crucial to understand current practices and attitudes across disciplines from a holistic view to extend the body of … Read more

Examining the values inherent in papers published at IDC provides a lens to our research community and informs the path of future research needs and opportunities. We conducted a content analysis of the values expressed in all full IDC papers between 2011 and 2019 and a survey with the first authors of 20% of these … Read more

This WIP paper was accepted to IDC2020. Here is the abstract. The growing development and commercialization of Virtual Reality (VR) allow more children to get access to this technology. VR features a new, more emotional relevant experience with a sense of presence and high interactivity. In this paper, we present VWorld, an immersive VR system … Read more

This book was published by China Youth Publishing House.

This full paper is accepted by the 15th CCF Conference on China Human-Computer Interaction (CHCI’19). Here is the abstract. Author: Qiao Jin, Danli Wang, Xiaozhou Deng, Chao Xu Teaching children programming using tools based on Tangible User Interface (TUI) is an effective way to foster children’s computational thinking ability. MazeRobot is a tangible programming system designed for children … Read more

This paper is published in the 17th ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC 2018) Author: Qiao Jin, Danli Wang*, Xiaozhou Deng, Nan Zheng, Steve Chiu DOI: 10.1145/3202185.3210784   Programming is an effective way to foster children’s computational thinking. We present AR-Maze, which is a novel tangible programming tool using Augmented Reality (AR) technology for … Read more

This WiP paper was accepted by IDC2019. Here is the abstract. In this paper we present ARCat, a tangible programming tool designed to help children learn DFS algorithm with augmented reality technology. The tool help children use tangible programming cards to control a search process, rather than control visual characters directly. With the special design … Read more