Augmented Reality-Based Elementary Level Education for Bengali Character Familiarization

Abstract

Augmented reality is widely used technology in current years in different field of education to enhance the learning process. This study reflects a new way to learn Bengali letters and digits for the early age primary school going children using AR technology. Nowadays, smart phones are very much available in Bangladesh from the rural area to urban area. The proposed method helps to observe interactive 3D view of the characters using mobile camera-based AR application having different options to learn how to write the target image character, the pronunciations process and the word making using the target letter. The target images was taken from the book pages provided by national curriculum and textbook board of Bangladesh to ensure the physical book available. This study focused on help the children in learning the Bengali letters and digits in more interactive, realistic and interesting way rather than the traditional manner. The process designed depending on marker-based AR technology which is feasibly strong for the early childhood education. Usability test results present in later portion. According to the survey, the major findings of the study that the teachers thinks the study reflects a positive way of making the learning process more engaging and as reported by assessment student performance increased using proposed AR method.