News Finding: They plan to extend their mixed-reality game to different content areas to create a new educational system that bridges the advantages of physical and virtual worlds to improve children's science learning, understanding and enjoyment in a collaborative way.
Paper Finding: In future work, we aim to explore the role of combining more handson activities while maintaining the vision-based interactive learning feedback.
News Context: They also determined that simple physical controls like shaking the tablet or pushing the earthquake button did little to improve either learning or enjoyment of the game. "Mixed-reality games that support physical observation in the real world have a great potential to enhance learning and enjoyment for young children," the researchers say. They plan to extend their mixed-reality game to different content areas to create a new educational system that bridges the advantages of physical and virtual worlds to improve children's science learning, understanding and enjoyment in a collaborative way.
Paper Context: Children's comments and our survey data suggest that having more building activities integrated into the game can make it more enjoyable for children. In future work, we aim to explore the role of combining more handson activities while maintaining the vision-based interactive learning feedback. We also aim to expand our mixed-reality game for different content areas in education (e.g., using a balance scale rather than earthquake table) to test the generalizability of our results.