Projects
XR Laboratory Prototype for Chemical Engineering Education KU Leuven
The project aims to investigate how abstract conceptual understanding that is taught in formal chemistry, chemical technology courses and practical sessions of Leuven Curricula can be supported and complemented with playful e-learning for secondary-school and university students. In order to achieve this, AR, VR, and mixed reality models will be developed to couple theoretical chemical concepts with practical experience. More specifically, ...
Virtual Laboratories for Exoplanets and Planet Forming Disks KU Leuven
The first detection of an exoplanet marked a new epoch in our hopes to detect extraterrestrial life. These detections have opened new parameter spaces and demonstrate that physical and chemical conditions exists in (A) planet forming disks that are vastly different from what we know in the solar system and in (B) (exo)planets that are vastly different from those that characterized planet Earth when life originated in an anoxic soup, and yet ...
Virtual Laboratories for Exoplanets and Planet Forming Disks (CHAMELEON) University of Antwerp
Analysis of the impact of inquiry-based virtual biotechnology laboratories on student learning in the domain of biology KU Leuven
Virtual Reality Serious Game for Chemical Lab Safety Training in Industry and Academia: from Design, Development to Increased Motivation and Engagement KU Leuven
Chemical laboratories are workplace environments where risks of injury and even fatality are always present. Laboratory workers, in academia and industry, are required to have proficient safety awareness in order to minimise risk to an acceptable level. However, investigation reports and reviews on laboratory accidents reveal that, due to lack of safety awareness and at-risk behaviour, unfortunate events still happen. Insufficient safety ...
Cognitive workload monitoring during virtual reality gameplay by combining performance and task difficulty with EEG with ECG recordings KU Leuven
Current evidence suggests that short training sessions can improve cognitive performance of elder individuals and postpone age-related cognitive decline development. But the expected outcome could be compromised when these sessions increase the subject's cognitive workload (CW) -the interaction between mental demands of the task and the subject's ability to perform them. Several attempts have been made to relate CW to task difficulty, leaving ...
Discovery of CCR7 small molecule inhibitors by virtual screening andhit-to-lead optimization. KU Leuven
Completely virtual, three dimensional, clinical trial platform for evaluating new breast imaging design choices. KU Leuven
Clinical trials are the gold standard method for the verification or the optimization of imaging technology. However, this is an expensive and very time consuming task. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) starts to support the proof of evidence using simulations rather than real trials. Virtual clinical trials are therefore being developed. While we have experience with simulation frameworks in which we simulate lesions into real patient ...
Could You Repeat That, Please? Increasing The Quality And Replicability Of Physiological Virtual Reality Research Through A Comprehensive Experimental Framework Ghent University
Virtual reality (VR) experiments are increasingly employed because of their internal and external validity compared to real-world observation and laboratory experiments. Recently, the attention of human behavioural research in VR has focused on the use of psychophysiological signals, such as electroencephalography (EEG) or electrocardiography (ECG). However, the replicability of these research findings is hardly existent due to inconsistent ...