Breaking Bad Behavior

In the project Breaking Bad Behavior, a concept is developed and empirically evaluated to advance classroom management competencies of preservice teachers in an interdisciplinary collaboration of media pedagogy and Human-Computer-Interaction. Also, a fully immersive classroom is developed and empirically validated.

In the context of this interdisciplinary project "Breaking Bad Behavior", the team from the chair of School Pedagogy developed a concept to advance classroom management competencies of preservice teachers using a cirtual classroom, based on theory. The concept was implemented within an action-oriented educational research approach in school pedagogical studies and evaluated with regards to the achievement of objectives and potential side effects.

The interdisciplinary collaboration was realized by applying a design-based research cycle with consideration of the model of responsive evaluation and also in close connection to the HCI-oriented user-centered design processes. In the user-centered design process, the necessary technological developments were advanced by iterative prototypes, considering future users closely, and tested and optimized with regards to general and XR-specific criteria of usability and user experience. This way, a virtual classroom was developed with 24 semi-autonomous avatars and relevant XR impact factors of immersion, presence and embodiment were evaluated.

In 2018, the project won the FraMediale price in the category "Best-practice or future projects with digital media by higher education lecturers".

Report in the JMU EINBLICK magazine [German only]
Project video [German only]

In 2020, Christian Seufert was awarded with the "Lehrpreis der Fakultät für Humanwissenschaften der Universität Würzburg".

Funding: Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

Duration: seit 2015