In Lucy Cavendish College of the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), researchers use emerging digital technology to enrich and accelerate learning. Now they launch a free online platform where users become competent and safe public speakers. On the platform, personalized teaching material develops key skills and realistic virtual reality training environments encourage confidence to speak in public.
As revealed in the academic magazine ‘Frontiers’, it has been clinically demonstrated that The platform significantly increases confidence in most users after a single 30 -minute session. In addition, in the most recent essay with Cambridge students, it was discovered that a week of self -guided use was beneficial for 100 % of the participants. More findings will be revealed at the next International Conference on Psychology in Oxford (United Kingdom).
The director of the laboratory and founder of the platform, Dr. Chris Macdonald, explains: “In physical reality, a user could be practicing a presentation only in his bedroom, but on the new virtual reality platform, You can experience the feeling of presenting before a wide range of audiences Fotorrealists increasingly challenging. “
In developing a method that converts smartphones into virtual reality glasses, Dr. Macdonald has guaranteed access to the platform for all. However, although virtual reality glasses can cost thousands of pounds, A device support costs about 15 pounds (about 18 euros).
This device support could be considered a “conversion kit” of low cost that transforms the user’s smartphone into functional virtual reality glasses. The platform has been designed in such a way that, regardless of whether a participant uses the most recent independent virtual reality glasses or an old smartphone inserted in a support, it will obtain the same content and the same experience.
In this way, the platform helped all users in one or more in the following ways: To feel more prepared, more adaptable, more resilient, safer, to better manage nerves and feel less anxious.
Dr. Macdonald details: “Before a presentation, most students tend to practice alone, in a highly controlled environment, normally in their rooms and without public. As a result, they will feel like a great advance when presenting, even before a small group of people, and even a subtle gesture of the public can mislead them. Instead, students who use the virtual reality platform They can practice in a different place every night, in the face of a wide range of highly terrifying distractors and scenarios. They can, for example, practice in a stadium compared to 10,000 animated spectators, with strong noises, lights and flashes. “
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