A Case-Based Study of Students' Visuohaptic Experiences of Electric Fields around Molecules: Shaping the Development of Virtual Nanoscience Learning Environments

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Student S2 uses the haptic device to probe the centre of the carbon atom in CO₂ during interaction with the system. In contrast with the verbal output obtained from S2, the visuohaptic model does not in fact provide any haptic feedback in the region probed by the student in this specific episode.