Study on Augmented Reality as a Teaching Aid for Handicapped Children

Abstract

This study looked at the use of augmented reality to combine real scenery with virtual sound to improve the interactivity of teaching aid and provide handicapped children with a more intuitive learning method. The focus is on the development of augmented reality applications for special education. The key components are identifying tags for augmented reality, web-cam device and image processing device. The study was divided into preparation phase and experiment phase. The preparation phase was used to train teacher involved in this study while the experiment phase generated feedback from the actual use of this system by handicapped children who were the subjects of the study. The system was used for children from 4th grade to 8th grade. The design of the teaching materials offered both the teachers and the handicapped children a novel learning method.

Augmented Reality as a Tool in the Teaching-Learning Process of Natural Sciences in a Primary Institution

“…Numerous applications of AR have been developed in the educational context, proposing the implementation of a two-phase model: preparation and experimentation, to optimize the teaching process in primary school disabled children, in which identification tags, a webcam and an image-processing device are used, thus providing an alternative learning method that allows disabled children to access knowledge effectively. However, the correct implementation required the first phase of preparing teachers to adopt this new technology [5].…”

A Situational Training System for Developmentally Disabled People Based on Augmented Reality

“…But, only a few systems have been introduced for developmentally disabled people [4]- [6]. Richard E. et al proposed the cognitive training designed to find the same model as the one in a marker book and to match them [4], whereas Claudio K. et al presented another cognitive training planed to find the pattern that generates the same image as the image of the cell designated using a 3-sided cells and physical pointers with markers [5].…”

Using Interface Design with Low-Cost Interactive Whiteboard Technology to Enhance Learning for Children

“…The study utilizes wiimote equipments of assistive technology and applications of flash software so that teachers teaching for normal or resource classes in kindergarten and elementary school enable to improve students' learning interest, especially for students who have difficulty following the scheduled learning progress [1].Computerbased instruction is widely used in special education. Special education teachers sometimes may have trouble teaching their students to use different computer tools [2],and advances in computer technology replacing translation of traditional paper questionnaires with novel display versions [3].Through the assistance of assistive technology and the demonstration of multimedia design, teachers have enough ability to produce the learning materials of custom-made design in order to support learning disabled students to absorb knowledge [4] [5]; user-friendly design is defined as a structural design of an interface [6] [7],and teaching interaction procedure is a systematic form of teaching where teachers use to describe their behavior [8].…”