News Finding: "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.
Paper Finding: These results show that mixed-reality led to more learning than screen only, for both the mousecontrol and physical-control conditions ( Figure 10 ).
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: There was no effect of control type and no interaction effects. These results show that mixed-reality led to more learning than screen only, for both the mousecontrol and physical-control conditions ( Figure 10 ). We can consider what choice improves learning most over a typical virtual, mouse-control game (#1 in Figure 10 ).