Building note-taking tools to support learning in virtual reality

Abstract

With the advent of virtual reality (VR) technology, education and learning applications are able to leverage the fully immersive medium to create more hands-on, sophisticated, and engaging interactions. Alongside efforts to build virtual learning environments, note-taking can be reimagined in a virtual space where visual and auditory experiences can be captured and re-experienced. We classify phases as well as affordances of note-taking enabled self-regulated learning to be content capture, review, and modification. We present a first-principles analysis to identify design requirements for virtual note-taking that satisfy the three key functions of note-taking. We will discuss our approach to overcoming technical and design challenges as I detail the implementation of a standalone note-taking module, MemoryTree.