AR Project
Who are we?
We are a group of two graduate students at the University of Delaware exploring the integration of math education in Augmented Reality (AR) applications.
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What is it about?
Researches demonstrate AR may increase students’ responses and interaction rate with geometry learning objects. The 3-D objects of AR are more tangible and visible from different perspectives. These tangible experiences through action learning can increase student math motivation. Thus, we propose an educational mathematics game that uses augmented reality. The game will consist of two tasks inspired by Van Hiele (1999)’s levels of geometric thought: (1) a to-scale AR object will be placed in the environment, the user must then calculate perimeter, area, etc. (2) the user is asked to explore their surroundings and identify and measure shapes. All process data will be stored for learning analytics and the user will provide feedback about their motivation throughout the experience.
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Who is going to use the system?
10-11-year-olds
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What tasks do they now perform?
Currently, kids are measuring and doing these kinds of projects using paper and pencil, sometimes using things like rulers.
What tasks are desired?
Tasks that are on digital technology, make it more fun since its on a phone, teach them to use tech as a tool rather than a toy, also makes this learning more interactive
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Where are the tasks performed?
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Go and find some shapes
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Measure different lines on the shape
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Calculate the area of the shape
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Calculate the volume of the object
What's the relationship between user & data?
Data - is the objects/shapes kids show the application
The app will show height and area (data about the object)
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What other tools does the user have?
Paper with different shapes on them
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How often are the tasks performed?
As much as the person wants! Self-regulated learning!!!
How do we test if this app is good for them to play?
We would want a pretest to capture Geometric thinking skills using a psychological test of geometric/spatial ability