Virtual Playground: An Augmented Reality Application to Improve English Learning

Design-based research for the development of augmented reality applications: the case of virtual playground

“…The concept's core and the features of the application explained in this work emerged from a Design-Based Research (DBR) inspired process (PEREIRA et al 2020).…”

“…DBR was used and adapted to extract what would be the most important features of an AR application to be used in a classroom environment, as shown in (PEREIRA et al 2020). This paper describes the process of validation and improvements carried out during the second cycle of the DBR process involving 6 teachers recruited as volunteers from social media communities related to AR for education and inside the University of the authors.…”

“…This second cycle of research was conducted after the first round of tests described in Pereira et al (2020), which aimed at validating the concept of the proposed tool. We evolved the Virtual Playground Creator to a functional mobile version aimed to address the feedback from previous evaluations and include design principles discovered up to this point.…”

“…Thinking aloud protocol was also used to reveal their impressions of the interface throughout their experience. These tests are detailed in (PEREIRA et al 2020).…”

“…Based on the results from our first cycle of tests, different issues needed to be fixed to promote a better user experience (PEREIRA et al 2020). We highlighted the most critical ones and classified them into three different categories, namely:…”