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Tangible Interaction in Learning Astronomy through Augmented Reality Book-Based Educational Tool

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Visual Informatics: Bridging Research and Practice (IVIC 2009)

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Live Solar System (LSS) is an Augmented Reality book-based educational tool. Augmented Reality (AR) has its own potential in the education field, because it can provide a seamless interaction between real and virtual objects. LSS applied the Tangible Augmented Reality approach in designing its user interface and interaction. Tangible Augmented Reality is an interface which combines the Tangible User Interface and Augmented Reality Interface. They are naturally complement each other. This paper highlights the tangible interaction in LSS. LSS adopts the ‘cube’ as the common physical object input device. Thus, LSS does not use the traditional computer input devices such as the mouse or keyboard. To give users a better exploration experience, Visual Information Seeking Mantra principle was applied in the design of LSS. Hence, LSS gives users an effective interactive-intuitive horizontal surface learning environment.

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  1. Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600, Bangi, Selangor

    Aw Kien Sin & Halimah Badioze Zaman

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  1. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia

    Halimah Badioze Zaman

  2. Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 15 JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0FD, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Peter Robinson

  3. Communications and Signal Processing Group, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, Imperial College, SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    Maria Petrou

  4. School of Computing Science, Culture Lab, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom

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  5. School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476, 3001, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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  6. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Tamkang University, Tamkang University,, Taiwan

    Timothy K. Shih

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Sin, A.K., Badioze Zaman, H. (2009). Tangible Interaction in Learning Astronomy through Augmented Reality Book-Based Educational Tool. In: Badioze Zaman, H., Robinson, P., Petrou, M., Olivier, P., Schröder, H., Shih, T.K. (eds) Visual Informatics: Bridging Research and Practice. IVIC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5857. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05036-7_29

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