Exploring the Usefulness of Visual Indicators for Monitoring Students in a VR-based Teaching Interface

Teaching remotely using immersive Virtual Reality (VR) technol-ogy is becoming more popular as well as imperative with the ever-changing educational delivery methods. However, it is not easy for a teacher to monitor students in VR since only student avatars are visi-ble. We designed and tested two educational VR teaching interfaces to help a teacher monitor students. Our comparative analysis using a preliminary study with 5 participants showed that the teaching interface with centrally-arranged emoticon-like indicators, displaying a summary of student information, performed better than the interface with avatar-located indicators in terms of teaching duration, and classroom management.