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Navigating an Educational Experience by Augmenting our Reality

Navigating an Educational Experience by Augmenting our Reality

Final Master's Thesis project to design an experience to allow visitors to UC Berkeley's campus to access expert perspectives about Strawberry Creek. Advisor: Kimiko Ryokai and Teammate: Deepak Subramanian.

Leslie Tom

May 16, 2012
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  1. Navigating an Educational Experience through Augmenting our Reality NEEAR A

    UC Berkeley School of Information Master’s 2012 Final Project Deepak Subramanian Leslie Tom Advised by: Kimiko Ryokai
  2. Challenge How can we design an experience to access expert

    perspectives about Strawberry Creek at UC Berkeley?
  3. Designing a mobile augmented reality experience can invite learners to

    access information. Technical Augmentations Learner Expert Knowledge Hypothesis
  4. Situated Learning Knowledge is not fully understood until it is

    applied to a social or physical context. (Lave and Wenger, 1991)
  5. Observations • Information Access? • Engagement? • Personal Exploration? Tim

    Pine Environmental Specialist Interviews Observations Recordings Expert Knowledge Learner’s Experience
  6. Navigating User Experience “learner” Body moves through space to see:

    ground, creek, sky, etc. calibrate choose resource watch video
  7. Technical Solutions dθ# Accelerometer   •  Determines  the  gravity  vector

    •  Measure  angle  using  the  rela5ve   change  in  the •  Gravity  vector •  Suffers  from  noise Gyroscope •  Measures  angular  momentum •  Measure  the  angle  by  numerical  integra5on   •  Suffers  from  dri<
  8. UI/UX Solutions dθ# Ver/cal  Comparison •  Horizontal  split  screen  model

    •  Access  changing  resources Informa/on  Overlays •  AR  experience •  Alpha  Channel  overlays
  9. User Testing Between-Subject Design AR Group Control Group Dynamic AR

    view Static view same amount of information as the AR group
  10. Findings 1 • Increased Curiosity • AR group wanted to

    learn more about the site • AR asked more questions •“Want to have more fun facts and images (of the site I’m standing at)”
  11. Findings 2 • More engagement and connection with the physical

    site • They are looking at the site more carefully. • “...Each video tells a story about the fragment of the creek.... It helped me to relate where I was looking.”
  12. Findings 3 • Personal Exploration: • AR group felt the

    learning was more personal. • More control over the experience. •“...I like learning privately in a public space.”
  13. Future Work • Longitudinal study • Engagement & Learning •

    Dynamic AR vs. Traditional e-learning tools • Deployment: • Make it available for students, experts, teachers
  14. Thank you Q&A Deepak Subramanian & Leslie Tom For more

    information: • www.strawberrycreek.berkeley.edu • www.ischool.berkeley.edu