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: On the other hand, integrating simple physical controls such as shaking the tablet has little effect.
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 provided evidence that experiencing physical phenomena accompanied by interactive feedback via depth camera sensing in the real world improves learning (by approximately 5 times compared to a solely screen-based environment), while also enhancing enjoyment significantly. On the other hand, integrating simple physical controls such as shaking the tablet has little effect. Thus, mixed-reality games that support physical observation in the real world have a great potential to enhance learning and enjoyment for young children.