Dobricki, Martin; Rihs, Michael; Shahmoradi, Sina (9 April 2024). EcoVR – A virtual reality for learning eco-friendly food choice. In: A Metaverse for the Good. Barcelona. 9.-10. April 2024. 10.5281/zenodo.10993751

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Eco-friendly food choice requires that human individuals relate themselves and their natural environment to each other. They may establish this human-environment relation by experiencing their food choices being accompanied by negative or positive changes of the eco-system. Hence, educating human individuals by enabling them to such human-environment experiences may foster their eco- friendly food choice. Yet, this would require inducing climate-related environmental changes on purpose that immediately follow one’s choice of food. We have, therefore, developed a VR consisting in a life-sized virtual environment in which grabbing food is accompanied by climate-related environmental changes or their reversal depending on the food’s carbon footprint. Moreover, we have started to investigate the educational utility of this EcoVR by asking experienced lower secondary school teachers to rate it in controlled experiments. Our findings suggest that the teachers regard EcoVR to be useful for teaching climate-friendly food consumption. Moreover, they regard this educational usefulness of EcoVR to be higher than that of its PC version. Hence, in lower secondary education EcoVR may have the potential to serve pupils for learning climate-friendly food choice. Moreover, it may serve as a digital bridge or «metaverse» between the learning of relevant skills at school and the application of these skills in real life.

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