Design Thinking
Our main objective is to create a value for cognitive activities and operations related to learning, such as understanding, remembering, reasoning, by accommodating virtual reality (VR) technologies. Therefore, we direct our professional strengths towards solving the following tasks:
- Creating knowledge by collecting empirical evidence about the impact of selected VR components and features, such as 3D user interfaces, visual metaphors, and collaborative interaction techniques, on comprehension of complex data.
- Applying this knowledge in designing and developing of software engine that can facilitate academic and business professionals in creating virtual environments for collaborative data exploration.
- Formulating specifications and recommendations for practical implementation of such virtual environments, in support of solving tasks with comprehension and manipulation of complex data and abstract concepts, in either educational or business context.
- Transferring expertise to other educators at CPH Business Academy, at other academic institutions, to researchers, and data-driven businesses.
We choose to organise our work adopting the Design Thinking methodology, gradually moving from the ambitious initial ideas toward advanced and complicated developments and implementations.
We have staged the process in four phases:
Inspiration – research, analyse, empathize, and define specifications
Exploration – brain storm, ideate, and prototype to validate and adjust the ideas with the potential users
Experimentation – carry experiments, test prototypes, and collect next level of feedback
Application – create applications, deploy, and disseminate the results, prepare for Holodeck 2.0