Visceral VR: Immersive Human Biology for the Study of Health and Disease

Visceral VR：用于健康和疾病研究的沉浸式人类生物学

• 批准号: 10056601
• 负责人: David Sarno
• 金额: $ 68.7万
• 依托单位: LIGHTHAUS, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-06-01 至 2022-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10056601
• 关键词: Active Learning; Attitude; Bite; Cells; Cognition; Cognitive; Data; Diet and Nutrition; Disease; Eating; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Fatty acid glycerol esters; Feasibility Studies; Food; Food Labeling; Generations; Goals; Health; High School Student; Human Biology; Image; Immersion; Knowledge; Label; Learning; Life; Medicine; Modality; Molecular; Nutrient; Nutritional Science; Physiological; Physiology; Process; Randomized; Research; STEM career; Science; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics; Scientist; Self Perception; Series; Small Intestines; Students; Testing; Travel; Visceral; Work; base; career; control trial; design; experience; frontier; gastrointestinal system; healthy lifestyle; high school; impression; interest; mathematical learning; novel; nutrition; pedagogy; theories; usability; virtual; virtual reality; virtual reality environment

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: VISCERAL VR Basic nutrition information often comes in the form of bland, abstract words and numbers on a food label – a label many consumers ignore. Lighthaus’s Visceral VR aims to bring nutrition to life by harnessing the power of virtual reality (VR) to pioneer an immersive, interactive approach to teaching the science of nutrition to high school students. With Visceral, students can follow a meal from the first bite to the last molecule, travelling through the digestive system into the small intestine, where they can break the food down into molecular nutrients to explore what’s “healthy” and what isn’t -- and see whether those molecules are delivered to cells for energy or stored as fat. Visceral gives students a gut-level understanding of the relationship between food and health. Lighthaus’s VR-based immersive science and health curricula are designed to engage students in exciting, transformative experiences that challenge them to apply scientific thought and practice to develop theories based on first-hand experimentation in in VR. We believe these embodied experiences in science can inspire a new generation of students to pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Our project will evaluate science-based VR curriculum's ability to spark student interest in STEM careers, as well as the effect it has on their retention of health-related knowledge they can use for crucial lifelong diet and nutrition decisions. We will conduct a series of usability and feasibility studies with high school science students, followed by a randomized control trial (RCT) to test the hypothesis that student use of Visceral can have an effect on students’ health and physiology content knowledge, students’ attitudes towards nutrition and diet, and students’ STEM aspirations and self-perceptions as scientists.

项目概要/摘要：VISCERAL VR 基本营养信息通常以平淡、抽象的文字和数字的形式出现在标签上。 食品标签——许多消费者忽视的标签 Lighthaus 的 Visceral VR 旨在​​为人们带来营养。 利用虚拟现实 (VR) 的力量开创沉浸式、互动式生活 向高中生教授营养科学的方法与内脏，学生。 可以跟随膳食从第一口到最后一个分子，通过消化系统 进入小肠，在那里它们可以将食物分解成分子营养物质以探索 什么是“健康”的，什么不是——看看这些分子是否被传递到细胞中 能量或储存为脂肪让学生对这种关系有一个直观的理解。 食物与健康之间。 Lighthaus 基于 VR 的沉浸式科学和健康课程旨在吸引学生 令人兴奋的、变革性的经历挑战他们应用科学思想和 我们相信这些都是基于 VR 中的第一手实验来实践发展理论的。 科学的具体经验可以激励新一代学生追求职业生涯 科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM)。 我们的项目将评估基于科学的 VR 课程激发学生兴趣的能力 STEM 职业，以及它对他们保留健康相关知识的影响 用于做出重要的终生饮食和营养决策。 我们将与高中理科学生进行一系列可用性和可行性研究， 随后进行随机对照试验 (RCT)，以检验学生使用 Visceral 的假设 可以影响学生的健康和生理内容知识、学生的态度 营养和饮食，以及学生对 STEM 的渴望和对科学家的自我认知。