In any training situation, the instructors’ competence in speaking to the audience will be crucial to the effectiveness of a training course. However, many instructors have limited competencies to deliver an effective oral presentation to the audience, the problem comes from eye contact, gesture and verbal fluency. One way to develop presenters’ presentation skills is to give them feedback based on their training videos, but such feedback given by human expert is dependent on the limited angles, some details of facial changes and eye contact cannot be synchronously analyzed. Virtual Reality (VR) may potentially help to address the oral speaking competence problem. Research has shown that VR can imitate an interactive and real classroom environment by providing virtual audience and generating immediate and data-based feedback for presenters’ oral presentation (Van Ginkel et al., 2020; Van Ginkel et al., 2019). Studies on the use of VR for enhancing training effectiveness are rare, and the effect also remains questionable. This study will design the VR-augmented feedback environment to investigate the effectiveness of VR-augmented feedback in training.
To develop the presenters' oral presentation skills for engaging the adult audience in a virtual training environment.
To investigate the effectiveness of the virtual reality-based environment in improving presenters’ oral presentation skills.
Studies on the use of VR for enhancing training effectiveness are rare, and the study on its effects remain to be a vast area for further exploration and analysis.
Quek Choon Lang Gwendoline
choonlang.quek@nie.edu.sg
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