Information Moral Education System Using a Mirror Utilization Method of VR

Abstract

There is a teaching method by the “three kinds of knowledge” (Tamada et al., 2004) in the guidance of information moral. The previous research explained the method to the morally lower person to think of his/her own actions from the victim’s point of view and described this effectiveness. And the previous research was suggested mirror utilization method of VR from mirror utilization method of VTR in the educational engineering field. In this research, we aimed to develop a new system combining mirror utilization method and virtual reality (VR) technology to verify its effectiveness. Specifically, the act of the learner is carried out in a VR, in which they look back at the experience from the perspective of the victim. This method involves attaching a facial photograph of the learner to the face of an avatar that becomes the perpetrator in the VR, thus making the perpetrator experience what it is like to be the victim. As a result, when comparing learners who did not use the mirror utilization method with those who did use it, there was an increase of information morals and a decrease in acts contrary to information morality.