Education on NUILab — Natural User Interaction Laboratory · An XR & Human-Centered AI Labhttps://nuilab.org/tags/education/Recent content in Education on NUILab — Natural User Interaction Laboratory · An XR & Human-Centered AI LabHugoen-usWed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000New NSF award: translating the science of learning into virtual realityhttps://nuilab.org/news/nsf-iuse-invisible-physics/Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://nuilab.org/news/nsf-iuse-invisible-physics/<p>The lab is part of a new NSF I-USE collaborative award: <em>Improving Conceptual Understanding of Invisible Physics by Translating the Science of Learning into Virtual Reality Environments</em> ($750,000, 2025–2028), with Dr. Ortega serving as co-PI.</p> <p>The project asks how virtual reality can make invisible physics — the forces, fields, and waves students can&rsquo;t see — graspable, by translating what we know about how people learn into the design of immersive environments. It connects directly to the lab&rsquo;s XR Training &amp; Education work.</p>