O impacto do design multissensorial na educação imersiva

Abstract

Multisensory design is to project experiences that involve senses beyond sight, such as motion perception and objects' physical properties, as well as people's emotional responses regarding those. Therefore, multisensory design is clearly important when projecting virtual reality applications, due to its immersive nature. virtual reality, in turn, is a resource that can be adapted to many teaching styles, thus being a technology with a potential yet to be explored. Accordingly, this work's primary objective is to validate the effectiveness of multisensory design through virtual reality in an educational scenario when teaching children about Astronomy, focusing on those who have presented Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The research went through bibliographic research, case study, interviews and usability tests with a low fidelity prototype, which finally ended in a virtual reality application. Through that, it was possible to note that the implementation of multisensory design in education has potential to become a valuable tool inside the classroom