On November 18-24, 2018 Anastasia Labuzova, a master student at the Department of Software Engineering of the Faculty of Information Technologies specializing in Web-programming and Internet Technologies, completed a course at Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (Saint Petersburg, Russia) under the State Programme “Education and Youth Policy” for 2016-2020.
The aim of the course was to study the topic “Development of Virtual Reality Software” in depth and gain skills in mathematical and computer modeling in that field.
Virtual simulators implementation for training skills among specialists of different kinds makes it possible not to use expensive equipment, which often requires transportation and installation, maintenance and readjustment, modernization and linking to a specific location.
Some emergency procedures are difficult to practice in real life and, especially, using the equipment. But virtual simulators make it possible not only to recreate an emergency situation, but also to adjust human behaviour in it. It is also possible to stimulate equipment failures and evaluate human behaviour when finding and eliminating the trouble. Elements of virtual reality give the effect of complete immersion in such cases.
Using the experience of our Russian colleagues in the chosen direction allows us to guarantee the functioning of the academic, research and practice laboratory of virtual reality at the Faculty of Information Technologies at PSU. It should be noted that the laboratory of virtual reality at PSU is the first university laboratory in Belarus.
The study programme included:
- Participation in the scientific and technical seminar of the Institute for Information Systems and Information Security;
- Attending lectures and seminars;
- Acquaintance with modern academic technologies at bachelor and master levels;
- Acquaintance with scientific results of the institute in the field of technologies for creating virtual reality software;
- Analysis of the normative acts and special and technical literature on the research topic.
Anastasia Labuzova took part in “A Week of UNESKO Institute for Information Technologies in Education” at Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation under the auspices of Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO, Saint Petersburg Committee for Education, Committee for Youth Policy and Interaction with Public Organizations, Committee for External Relations, Committee for Science and Higher School, Committee for the State Preservation of Historical and Cultural Monuments, UNESCO Associated Schools in Russia, UNESCO Chairs, Russian Schoolchildren’s Movement, North-West Interregional Public Organization of the Russian Cosmonautics Federation.
The Department of Software Engineering expresses its sincere appreciation to Aleksey Zhukov, Deputy Director of the Institute for Information Systems and Information Security, Victor Kurlov, Associate Professor at the Department of Innovations and Integrated Quality Systems of the Institute for Innovation and Master Degree Basic Training, for the high level of organizing the course for Anastasia Labuzova, a master student at PSU.
Oksana Golubeva, Head of the Department of Software Engineering