Reduction of global bee populations is one of the relevant topics in the list of environmental issues defined in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Agenda. Virtual Reality technologies can play a strategic role in raising awareness and education for sustainability by allowing users to visualize, demonstrate and emphasize information, making it more accessible. Virtual Reality can also elicit emotional involvement, which is important for influencing user behavior. The authors have designed and developed an educational Virtual Reality application called Colonies, which allows users to understand the issues related to the bee problem and empathize with bee colonies. The experience also offers suggestions for more sustainable behaviors.
Bordegoni, M., Carulli, M., Spadoni, E., Gallace, A., Clerici, M., Liu, R., et al. (2023). Exploring the impact of VR and embodiment on environmental literacy. In CHI EA '23: Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery [10.1145/3544549.3583903].
Exploring the impact of VR and embodiment on environmental literacy
Gallace A.;
2023
Abstract
Reduction of global bee populations is one of the relevant topics in the list of environmental issues defined in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Agenda. Virtual Reality technologies can play a strategic role in raising awareness and education for sustainability by allowing users to visualize, demonstrate and emphasize information, making it more accessible. Virtual Reality can also elicit emotional involvement, which is important for influencing user behavior. The authors have designed and developed an educational Virtual Reality application called Colonies, which allows users to understand the issues related to the bee problem and empathize with bee colonies. The experience also offers suggestions for more sustainable behaviors.
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