Paola Araiza Alba

Paola Araiza-Alba is a PhD student at Swinburne University of Technology doing research in Virtual reality and developmental psychology. Her research project involves the use of Virtual Reality Technology with children. It aims to find what type of learning takes place when children use this technology; specifically, she is looking at social-emotional development which includes children experience, expression, and management of emotions and also cognitive development such as attention, memory and thinking. Her research studies take children into VR learning environment and compare their learning, emotional reactions and behaviours with more traditional learning tools, such as books, iPad or videos. In her more recent study, Paola investigated the use of VR as a tool for children drowning prevention.

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