Application of Immersive Media to Develop Model Making Skills of Industrial Design Learners

ABSTRACT

Unprecedented challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic led to the educational institutes close with uncertainty around the world. To continue the academic year most educational institutions have shifted to online educational platforms. Design institutes in India too adopted online classes using various online network platforms. Immersive media, such as Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (VR and AR) has recently gained prominence in design education. Many researchers have highlighted that the VR/AR could help students improve their performance and conceptual understanding of a specific set of learning objectives. This study has helped them to identify the most common difficulty faced during online courses like model making course. VR and AR based instruction setup that allows the collaborative discussions between faculty and students are remotely discussed. The brainstorming process was used to generate ideas for improving the learning experience in the dexterity skill-based model making course through the use of immersive media. Heuristics analysis was also conducted to ensure the usability of the AR and VR based instructional interfaces. It was observed that the interactive AR based immersive instructions are better than the VR based instructions. This study can be continued further with design students to determine how effective it is to use visual clues in a model-making course using Immersive media. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.