In Proceedings of GALA

Puzzle Playground – Teaching VR interactions through a puzzle game

Vincent Albertsson, Patrick Hibbs, Csanad Farkas, Qinxin Ren, Amir Zaidi, Ricardo Marroquim, Elmar Eisemann, and Rafael Bidarra

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In recent years, it has become clear that modern education is not currently equipped with the proper tools to fully support remote teaching. Virtual reality (VR) has the potential to make remote education viable in the future. Nevertheless, many teachers and students lack experience and familiarity with this technology, which poses a challenge to its adoption in education. In this paper, we introduce Puzzle Playground, a game that builds familiarity with VR by teaching object interactions through puzzles in an interactive experience tailored for educators. Players gradually learn VR interactions by completing various puzzle levels. A preliminary user study indicated that people who learned with Puzzle Playground grasped VR interactions faster than those who learned with printed or visual methods.

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@inproceedings{bib:albertsson:2024,
    author       = { Albertsson, Vincent and Hibbs, Patrick and Farkas, Csanad and Ren, Qinxin and Zaidi, Amir and Marroquim, Ricardo and Eisemann, Elmar and Bidarra, Rafael },    
    title        = { Puzzle Playground – Teaching VR interactions through a puzzle game },
    booktitle    = { In Proceedings of GALA },
    editors      = { Avo Schönbohm, Francesco Bellotti, Antonio Bucchiarone, Francesca de Rosa, Manuel Ninaus, Alf Wang, Vanissa Wanick, Pierpaolo Dondio },
    volume       = { LNCS 15348 },
    year         = { 2024 },
    pages        = { 381--387 },
    publisher    = { Springer },
    address      = { Berlin, Germany },
    doi          = { 10.1007/978-3-031-78269-5 },
    url          = { https://publications.graphics.tudelft.nl/papers/802 },
}