A Study on Student Perceptions and Engagement With a Virtual Instrumentation Twin in an Undergraduate Analytical Chemistry Laboratory
Aoife Morrin·Denise Rooney·Brett Stout·Martin Nolan·Blánaid White·Frances Heaney·Carmel Breslin·Brian Murphy·Bernard T. Drumm·Ronan Bree·Christopher Burke·Eric Moore·Rachel Kavanagh
Abstract Resource constraints in analytical chemistry education often limit students’ opportunities to practise with advanced instrumentation. This exploratory study investigated third-year undergraduate chemistry students’ perceptions of, and engagement with, a newly developed virtual reality (VR) application—Immersive ChemLab—featuring a digital twin of an Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (AAS) instrument implemented as an interactive pre-laboratory preparation activity. The application comprise