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Dissertation: Play, Embodiment, and Mixed-reality Environments
My dissertation design is built on the GEM-STEP platform, which tracks students’ movement in the classroom space and translates it into the movement of virtual bees on the shared screen (Figure 1). There are three different types of activities in my study. Students experienced two roles in the activities: Bees and farmers. In activities 1-…
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About Me
Hi everyone Welcome to my Page! I’m Xintian, a Ph.D. Candidate in the Learning Sciences program with a Minor in Inquiry Methodology at Indiana University Bloomington. I gained my Master’s degree in Educational Psychology at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. My research interests broadly include play, Extended Reality (XR) learning environment, embodied cognition, and assessment. As a…