Future Classrooms - Multi-user Mixed Reality for Education

Multi-user Mixed Reality (MUMR) holds great potential for teaching and learning in many domains. But what are the most effective teaching experiences, formats and pedagogical techniques for this emerging technology? What kinds of interfaces and interactions are needed, or are most effective? What new possibilities do the technologies facilitate? and what are the biggest challenges and impediments?

The project contributes to the ongoing discourse of identifying the educational potential of MR technologies and provides insights for educators, researchers and developers interested in integrating MR into educational settings.

Through a series of case studies developed in close collaboration with educators working in a variety of domains, the project aims to develop and evaluate novel Multi-User Mixed Reality based educational practices.

Events, Exhibitions and Presentations

Output 2023
SIGGRAPH EDUSOIREE [Youtube Link]
Tag Der Lehre 2023 [Programme]
Krishnan Chandran presented Late-breaking work at CHI 2024 [Link]
Prof Alexander Lasch presents EduViewR lecture [Youtube Link]
Multi-user VR for Remote Teaching, presented by M. McGinity at online conference Beyond Zoom: XR for Teaching and Research in the COVID-19 Era, 2020

Videos

Colocated MR Classrooms

Publications

Co-located Mixed Reality Classrooms: Four Case Studies from Higher Education, 2024, DOI: 10.1145/3613905.3650790[Paper]
ViewR: Architectural-Scale Multi-User Mixed Reality with Mobile Head-Mounted Displays, 2023, DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2023.3299781[Paper] | [Code]

Theses & Student Projects

An XR Application for Supporting Music Theory Learning. Vivienne Amm FIS
Workflows zur Inhaltserstellung für Virtual Reality Klassenzimmer. Florian Duwert FIS
Human Understanding for Location based Experiences Using Synthetic Data. Chen Ling, Li Zhang.
Remote Piano Lessons using Mixed Reality. Vivienne Amm
Using Augmented Reality for an Enhanced and Sustainable Tourism Experience. Paschalis Dimitriou

Project Team Members

Krishnan Chandran and Jun. Prof. Matthew McGinity (Principle Investigator)

Interested in collaboration opportunities? | If you are a student looking for an interesting thesis topic?

Please reach out to Krishnan Chandran or Matthew McGinity