Integrating Virtual Worlds with Tangible User Interfaces for Teaching Mathematics: A Pilot Study
This article presents a pilot study of the use of two new tangible interfaces and virtual worlds for teaching geometry in a secondary school. The first tangible device allows the user to control a virtual object in six degrees of freedom. The second tangible device is used to modify virtual objects,...
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| author | Graciela Guerrero Andrés Ayala Juan Mateu Laura Casades Xavier Alamán |
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| description | This article presents a pilot study of the use of two new tangible interfaces and virtual worlds for teaching geometry in a secondary school. The first tangible device allows the user to control a virtual object in six degrees of freedom. The second tangible device is used to modify virtual objects, changing attributes such as position, size, rotation and color. A pilot study on using these devices was carried out at the “Florida Secundaria” high school. A virtual world was built where students used the tangible interfaces to manipulate geometrical figures in order to learn different geometrical concepts. The pilot experiment results suggest that the use of tangible interfaces and virtual worlds allowed a more meaningful learning (concepts learnt were more durable). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d9bf5d796f1347d3af8a1e1f3bc6b0ca2022-12-22T02:57:25ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202016-10-011611177510.3390/s16111775s16111775Integrating Virtual Worlds with Tangible User Interfaces for Teaching Mathematics: A Pilot StudyGraciela Guerrero0Andrés Ayala1Juan Mateu2Laura Casades3Xavier Alamán4Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, Sangolquí 171-5-231B, EcuadorDepartamento de Ingeniería Informática, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid 28049, SpainDepartamento de Ingeniería Informática, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid 28049, SpainDepartamento de ciencias, Florida Secundaria High School, Catarroja 46470, SpainDepartamento de Ingeniería Informática, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid 28049, SpainThis article presents a pilot study of the use of two new tangible interfaces and virtual worlds for teaching geometry in a secondary school. The first tangible device allows the user to control a virtual object in six degrees of freedom. The second tangible device is used to modify virtual objects, changing attributes such as position, size, rotation and color. A pilot study on using these devices was carried out at the “Florida Secundaria” high school. A virtual world was built where students used the tangible interfaces to manipulate geometrical figures in order to learn different geometrical concepts. The pilot experiment results suggest that the use of tangible interfaces and virtual worlds allowed a more meaningful learning (concepts learnt were more durable).http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/16/11/1775virtual worldsmixed realitytangible user interfacese-learning |
| spellingShingle | Graciela Guerrero Andrés Ayala Juan Mateu Laura Casades Xavier Alamán Integrating Virtual Worlds with Tangible User Interfaces for Teaching Mathematics: A Pilot Study Sensors virtual worlds mixed reality tangible user interfaces e-learning |
| title | Integrating Virtual Worlds with Tangible User Interfaces for Teaching Mathematics: A Pilot Study |
| title_full | Integrating Virtual Worlds with Tangible User Interfaces for Teaching Mathematics: A Pilot Study |
| title_fullStr | Integrating Virtual Worlds with Tangible User Interfaces for Teaching Mathematics: A Pilot Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Integrating Virtual Worlds with Tangible User Interfaces for Teaching Mathematics: A Pilot Study |
| title_short | Integrating Virtual Worlds with Tangible User Interfaces for Teaching Mathematics: A Pilot Study |
| title_sort | integrating virtual worlds with tangible user interfaces for teaching mathematics a pilot study |
| topic | virtual worlds mixed reality tangible user interfaces e-learning |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/16/11/1775 |
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