Fantastic Voyage 2021: Using Interactive VR Storytelling to Explain Targeted COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery to Antigen-presenting Cells
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Zhang, Lei; Lu, Feiyu; Tahmid, Ibrahim Asadullah; Davari, Shakiba; Lisle, Lee; Gutkowski, Nicolas; Schlueter, Luke; Bowman, Doug A.
- Source
- 2021 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) VRW Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), 2021 IEEE Conference on. :695-696 Mar, 2021
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
COVID-19
Three-dimensional displays
Conferences
Education
Virtual environments
User interfaces
Tools
Virtual reality
storytelling
immersion
interactivity
education
- Language
Science storytelling is an effective way to turn abstract scientific concepts into easy-to-understand narratives. Science storytelling in immersive virtual reality (VR) can further optimize learning by leveraging rich interactivity in a virtual environment and creating an engaging learning-by-doing experience. In the current context of the COVID-19 pandemic, we propose a solution to use interactive storytelling in immersive VR to promote science education for the general public on the topic of COVID-19 vaccination. The educational VR storytelling experience we have developed uses sci-fi storytelling, adventure and VR gameplay to illustrate how COVID-19 vaccines work. After playing the experience, users will understand how the immune system in the human body reacts to a COVID-19 vaccine so that it is prepared for a future infection from the real virus.