Augmented Reality (AR) meets Action Research: a workshop (re) conceptualising a year one gaming/computing curricula
Dr. Debbie Holley Bournemouth University([email protected])
Dr. Mike Hobbs – Anglia Ruskin University ([email protected])
Dr Ioannis Paraskevopoulos – Anglia Ruskin University
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This Workshop – 3 phases• Brief Overview of
Augmented PDP Project• Viewing / Creating AR
Artefacts • What next – open discussion
on future course design.(meanwhile, while we do the talky bit, its OK to download the free Aurasma APP from App Store (iOS) or GooglePlay (Android) )
You can download this powerpoint with the instructions from slideshare:
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The Augmented PDP Project
To engage ARU staff and
students in broadest context with innovative
technology
To offer ARU students extra-
curricula opportunities to
enhance their CV
Part of a University LTP
project:
http://www.lta.anglia.ac.uk
/
To explore the affordances of
Augmented Reality for
inside/outside the classroom
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The Year 1 Computing/Gaming PDP Problem:
• Personal Development Portfolio sessions needed to deliver basic academic skills
• BUT failed to engage students from the first year Computing and Gaming Technology course. – lack of submissions, affected progression
• So we needed something to act as a practical focus around which the skills could be utilised
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Augmented PDP: pedagogic approach
• Students Introduced to the Aursama AR app • Working in groups outside the class, students created augmented team
logos• Students were encouraged to plan, script and create an aura for a book
used in their course . • Supporting materials posted on the VLE with support provided via
discussion boards and comments on their group blogs.• Research skills to underpin future project work modelled – students took
part in ‘Fishbowl’ sessions where they fed staff questions as groups were filmed talking about their experiences
• Following ‘flipped classroom principles’ and drawing upon Vygotsky
(see Cook, J. (2010) Mobile phones as mediating tools within augmented contexts for development.International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 2 (3). pp. 1-12. ISSN 1941-8647 )
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Results
• Student comments and responses from a questionnaire were positive.
• More students submitted the ‘PDP check list’ demonstrating skills in:– Group work, report writing, research, referencing,
presentation, blogging, time / project management
You can download our draft paper from ‘Augmented@ARU’
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Getting started with Aurasma1. Download app.2. Open / start app (skipping intro)3. Use menu (tap on at at the bottom of the screen)4. 3. Use the viewfinder and hold over a trigger. Aurasma is a free App the enables you to follow existing ‘channel’ and view premade resourcesWe will now set up the App on the devices, and start to work towards creating our postersSequence: In small groups, download app, then we will explore some existing examples to get ideasWe will make an aurasma aura using the built in animation
Download and InstallFor Apple / IoS from AppStore or for Android from Playstore – search for ‘Aurasma’.
The Anglia Ruskin UniversityAugmented Reality Project
Mike Hobbs & Debbie HolleySee our project website:http://augmentedaru.org/
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Starting AurasmaFor the first time use you will get a ‘Welcome To Aurasma tutorial’, swipe left to proceed to the sign-in page and select ‘>>skip’. No need to log in or create an account at this stage.
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Viewfinder The App starts on the ‘viewfinder’ page – with pulsating white dots on the screen.Tap on the at the bottom of the screen to get to the set of available auras and the menu icons at the base of the screen.
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Menu Page
Use the search icon: to get to the search page. look for one of the channels on the cards e.g ‘books4U’, from the list of results, ‘select the books4U Public Auras’.
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SearchType in ‘books4U’, in the text box. From the list of results, ‘select the books4U Public Auras’.
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FollowClick on the ‘Follow’ box in the top right hand corner – this should change to ‘following’.You are now ready to select the viewfinder icon: [ ] and aim your camera at a trigger image, once it is recognised the media for the aura will play.
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‘Quack Attack’ Group images:
‘Sports in Society’ Book with weightlifting aura.
Group members in the library using Aurasma
QR code for the group’s Aurasma Channel : ‘Quack Attack’ http://auras.ma/s/bqWlb
Group member showing aura for the end point of their directions.
Short video of following direction based auras: http://youtu.be/FN3F_0hYv-Q
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‘Button Bashers’ Group IC# Programming Yelow Book ‘The Rubber Duck Edition’This is a book taken from the library that is part of the reading for their course.Aura showing initial views of the subject! Channel ‘PDP LFG’ Video showing demonstration of Aura:http://youtu.be/yWONzkgB8J8
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‘NukeIn’ GroupAursama Channel ‘lankybean’ Logo, triggers an aura of an image made from nuclear warning signs.
‘Beginning Math and Physics, for game programmers’ : Aura shows calculations from the cover and an image of a raduis for the trigger on page 56:
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Red Squadron Group IShowing Library ‘this way’ aura and triggers based on room numbers.Aurasma Channel ‘RedSquadron’
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Our project blog:
• Mike to insert image and url?
Our Blog site http://augmentedaru.org
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Augmented Reality and PostersBriefing document about Augmented Reality and Learninghttp://www.jisc.ac.uk/inform/inform35/AugmentedReality.html
The benefits of e-posters http://www.sconul.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/7_15.pdf
Augmented Reality Reading list:http://readinglists.anglia.ac.uk/lists/DBBCD9D9-98C9-8B7B-2975-3BBAB6E613AB.html