Maze Collaboration VR

2022 | Nesse van der Meer (Centre for Education and Learning)

This PhD research experiment at the XR Zone in TU Delft Library aims to assess the impact of unique visual properties of virtual reality on collaborative learning. The researcher, along with a developer, designed various VR tasks that require interdependence among participants, ranging from solving puzzles to navigating a maze. Experimental groups have access to vision cones and highlighting tools, while control groups do not. Participants from Leiden, Delft, and Rotterdam universities, who are unfamiliar with each other, engaged in these experiments. The preliminary results suggest that VR has the potential to foster collaboration and diminish social barriers, as evidenced by participants' enthusiastic engagement.