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Abstract Title: Smartglasses as assistive tools for STEM laboratory courses – Theoretical Foundations
Abstract: Realizing augmented reality (AR) learning scenarios with see-through smartglasses creates a wearable educational technology providing active access to various additional information without distracting from the physical interaction with the reality.
By displaying information directly in the user's field of view, the combination of real world and virtual objects creates a learning environment that enables students to evaluate their own measurements in more detail, to draw conclusions for further investigations or functional correlations between physical quantities.
In this contribution, we apply the theoretical framework of multimedia learning to AR scenarios in introductory STEM laboratories, resulting in positive hypotheses about students' learning and motivation. Based on major principles of the Cognitive-affective theory of learning with media (spatial and temporal contiguity), this tool can (a) provide a real-time feedback while sustaining students' autonomy and authenticity of action, (b) structure students' hands-on experiences, and (c) guide their attention to cue points of knowledge construction.
Abstract Type: Contributed Poster Presentation
Session Time: Poster Session II
Poster Number: B85

Author/Organizer Information

Primary Contact: Michael Thees
TU Kaiserslautern; Department of Physics/ Physics Education Research Group
Erwin-Schroedinger-Straße 46, room 532
Kaiserslautern, Germany, Non U.S.
Co-Author(s)
and Co-Presenter(s)
Co-authors: Martin P. Strzys, Sebastian Kapp, Pascal Klein & Jochen Kuhn

TU Kaiserslautern
Department of Physics/ Physics Education Research Group
Erwin-Schroedinger-Straße 46
Kaiserslautern, Germany