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16Keywords: digitalization of childhood, parents' attitude (parental position), preschool age, digital media (devices), gadgets, toys connected to the Internet (Internet of Toys)
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THE LINK BETWEEN SPATIAL ABILITIES, VERBAL INTELLIGENCE AND IMMERSION IN VIRTUAL REALITY
Artem Kovalev
Associate professor, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; e-mail:
artem.kovalev.msu@mail.ru
Yulia Starostina
Psychologist, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; e-mail: star-red@yandex.ru
Abstract: Virtual reality technologies are increasingly being used in the education of school-age children. However, the effects using of these technologies have not yet been studied. The aim of this research was to study the link between spatial abilities, verbal intelligence, and the level of immersion in virtual reality. 13 schoolchildren aged 12 to 15 years took part in the experiment. The stimulation was a virtual reality environment which replicated the task of spatial rotation of figures in 3D. There was a room with a neutral environment. Participant saw 5 pedestals in front of them, on each of which 6 multi-colored three-dimensional geometric shapes were arranged in different orders. One pedestal was in front and four were in a row behind it. The first pedestal was an etalon that needed to be rotated by a given number of degrees (180, 90 to the left or 90 to the right). The number and arrow were located at the top. Having turned the object on the front pedestal, participants were required to point to the pedestal on which the objects corresponded to the specified rotation. Each participant solved 50 tasks. The environment was presented in an HMD system HTC Vive. Before immersion in virtual reality, the subject performed two-dimensional tasks on spatial abilities and verbal intelligence. Thus, there were several dependent variables: the percentage of correct answers in 2D and 3D tasks, intelligence coefficient. The results showed that there was a significant positive correlation between spatial abilities and the level of immersion in virtual reality.
Keywords: spatial abilities, virtual reality DOI:
KINEMATIC CHARACTERISTICS OF MOVEMENT ON A TOUCHSCREEN REPRESENTATION OF A VIRTUAL OBJECT AS PREDICTORS OF ITS MENTAL IMAGE IN PRESCHOOLERS
Svetlana Krylova
Associate Professor, Ural State Pedagogical University, Yekaterinburg, Russia; e-mail:
s_g_krylova@mail.ru
Yuliya Vodyakha
Associate Professor, Ural State Pedagogical University, Yekaterinburg, Russia; e-mail: jullyaa@ya.ru
Abstract: This research aims to find objective correlatives of mental image characteristics of a virtual object in preschoolers using computer applications. It addresses the caveats of a common approach
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