SEEe

Overview

The System Exploration and Engagement Environment (SEEe) is a Virtual Reality (VR)-based data visualization system designed to enhance constructivist learning. This research investigates how immersive analytics and collaborative VR environments impact learning, decision-making, and sensemaking strategies within an educational setting.

Problem Statement

Education research struggles with effectively integrating complex data visualization tools. Traditional methods fail to support inquiry-based learning. SEEe provides an immersive analytics environment for users to explore and interact with multi-modal data.

User & Audiences

• Primary Users: Teacher candidates from UMBC’s Sherman Center and Education Department.
• Target Audience: Educators, VR-learning researchers, and immersive analytics developers.

Roles & Responsibilities

• My Role: Graduate Student Researcher
• Responsibilities:
  • Assisted in research design and participant recruitment
  • Led qualitative data collection in VR
  • Facilitated VR training sessions
  • Conducted post-study debriefs and usability analysis

Scope & Constraints

• Timeline: November 1, 2023 – May 20, 2025
• Participants: 20-24 users from UMBC and Towson
• Constraints: VR lab location, equipment availability, compensation, and motion sickness risk.

Process & What I Did

• Session 1: Consent, demographic collection, and 2D conceptual modeling (FigJam).
• Session 2: VR training, practice tasks, and main study.
• Session 3: Collaborative conceptual modeling and post-study surveys.

Outcomes & Results

• To be determined