Visualization & Virtual Reality

Friday, 18 December | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | Room 416/417

Session Chair

Mark Chavez

Who is on My Team: Building Strong Teams in Interdisciplinary Visualization Courses

While it seems that interdisciplinary collaboration in a visualization course is (theoretically) a very good idea, the practical application is problematic. In a single-semester course, students need to find project partners in a group of students they do not know at all, establish a “common ground” with their new partners, and create an expressive and effective solution to a visualization problem. This paper reports on a one-semester course given to 48 interdisciplinary students (29 computer science, 14 business-information systems, five non-technical ), the strategies chosen to support interdisciplinary collaboration, and expectations and feedback on the collaboration as experienced by the students.  

Gitta Domik 
Universität Paderborn

An Educational Method for VR Content Creation Using Groupwork

VR content creation is a complex activity, and it requires a variety of skills, from sensing technology and computer graphics techniques to aesthetic design and storytelling. A groupwork-based project is a suitable approach for creating a VR application, because individual members can exert their full powers in their special fields by collaborating with each other.

This paper introduces and demonstrates the advantages of an educational method for creating virtual reality content through groupwork.

Kazunori Miyata 
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology