An Educational Virtual Scenario for Learning Chaos and Complexity Theories
Based on contemporary Chaos and Complexity Theories, Imagination TOOLSTM is an innovative Virtual Reality (VR) software architecture which, by means of an agent-based interface, endowed with input, processes, output and a communication system, allows the creation of sound and musiccomposition. After testing the systems usability with expert and novice users, both musicians and non musicians, we understood that the more the users know about the scientific domain, the more they improve their performance in using the software tools.So we decided to create an interactive learning system in which,by using hands-on activities and interacting live with dynamical systems such as Chuas Attractors it is possible to advance the software use, improving the users creative potentials. After a brief introduction to Imagination TOOLSTM technological and interactive features, this paper presents the design and the implementation of this new environment which is based on 4 main sections: (1) An interactive narrative story telling system, based on a huge repository of avatars, multimedia images, videos, sound and music files, specific game applications on chaos, complexity theory, continuous and discrete systems in order to create a rich background to be used as educational objects for improving the learning processes; (2) A simulated environment in which it is possible to build up the Chuas circuit; (3) A simulated environment to visualize and explore chaotic phenomena; (4) A live visual and auditory multi-user performing environment in which musicians, moving in a 3D space are able to visualize the patterns of Chuas attractor and to create musical compositions by dynamically influencing the systems engine and the performance.
Virtual intelligent environment learning Chaos Chuas Circuit complexity music sound production
Francesca Bertacchini Eleonora Bilotta Pietro Pantano
Evolutionary Systems Group,Dipartimento di atematica,Università della Calabria,Italy Dipartimento di Linguistica,Università della Calabria,Italy
国际会议
2008年国际虚拟环境和虚拟智能大会(IVEVA 2008)
南京
英文
19-26
2008-06-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）