Collaborator
Wen-Hao David Huang
David is a professor in Education Policy, Organization & Leadership at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research examines what helps people, organizations, and communities engage with interventions intended to support change. He studies motivation, capability, and the conditions that shape decisions in learning and performance settings.
His research includes organizational adoption of technology, engagement in game-based learning, instructional systems design, support for career decisions, and digital divides.
For the Game-Based Virtual Reality Archaeology project, he is responsible for designing and implementing research and evaluative activities to delineate the relationships among motivational support, cognitive processes, and learning outcomes perceived by study participants.
He believes the output of this project can meaningfully inform the design and implementation of VR-based learning environments in terms of their instructional efficacy, accessibility, and scalability for learning and development applications across contexts.
Projects
Active projects
VRchaeology
An immersive virtual field school for learning archaeological field methods through excavation, mapping, documentation, and analysis.
Publications
Conference papers
Relationships between cognitive loads and motivational support in a virtual reality game-based learning system for teaching introductory archaeology
A study of cognitive load and motivational support in a VR archaeology learning environment, drawing on survey responses from 106 participants.