Conducting user studies in engineering education during the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract: In this paper, we report about our experiences on adapting ongoing laboratory research of a supervised Virtual Reality (VR) study to a remotely conducted unsupervised desktop-based application. Challenges in the context of participant recruitment, pre-/post-test, and our application are illustrated in conjunction with the corresponding transformations. In addition, based on a qualitative problem analysis by an interdisciplinary team of experts, recommendations for future studies and transformations of VR lectures are derived from the findings and experiences of this project.