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: The mixed-reality, mouse-control condition (#2) is significantly better (p<0.05), but the virtual, physicalcontrol condition (#3) is not.
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: We can consider what choice improves learning most over a typical virtual, mouse-control game (#1 in Figure 10 ). The mixed-reality, mouse-control condition (#2) is significantly better (p<0.05), but the virtual, physicalcontrol condition (#3) is not. In other words, facilitating physical observation was more powerful than facilitating physical control through shaking the tablet.