Developing Mixed Reality Educational Applications: The Virtual Touch Toolkit
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UAM. Departamento de Ingeniería InformáticaPublisher
MDPIDate
2015-09-01Citation
10.3390/s150921760
Sensors 15.9 (2015): 21760-21784
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1424-8220DOI
10.3390/s150921760Funded by
We want to thank the IES Ernest Lluch and the IES Joan Coromines for all their support during the experience. The work reported in this paper was partially funded by the Spanish Research plan (project TIN2013-44586-R) and by the Madrid Research Plan (project S2013/ICE-2715).Project
Gobierno de España. TIN2013-44586-R; Comunidad de Madrid. S2013/ICE-2715/EMADRIDEditor's Version
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s150921760Subjects
Virtual worlds; Tangible user interfaces; Mixed reality; Education; InformáticaNote
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© 2015 MDPIAbstract
In this paper, we present Virtual Touch, a toolkit that allows the development of
educational activities through a mixed reality environment such that, using various tangible
elements, the interconnection of a virtual world with the real world is enabled. The main
goal of Virtual Touch is to facilitate the installation, configuration and programming of
different types of technologies, abstracting the creator of educational applications from the
technical details involving the use of tangible interfaces and virtual worlds. Therefore, it is
specially designed to enable teachers to themselves create educational activities for their
students in a simple way, taking into account that teachers generally lack advanced
knowledge in computer programming and electronics. The toolkit has been used to develop
various educational applications that have been tested in two secondary education high
schools in Spain.
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Google Scholar:Mateu, Juan
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Lasala, Maria Jose
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Alamán Roldán, Xavier
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