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Design and evaluation of a virtual mobile time machine in education

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We have developed a "virtual time machine" for edutainment, which needs only commercially available mobile phones. In reality, the system just shows graphical images of a past scene within a given area, viewing from the location given by GPS and with arbitrary viewing angles. Users can virtually explore the past world with it. We applied it to junior high school students. They virtually visited a world of 1938, when a landslide disaster occurred. They were able to directly compare now and the past. In this paper, the design approach and evaluation of our edutainment practice are given. Our system raised students' motivations.

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      ACE '08: Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology
      December 2008
      427 pages
      ISBN:9781605583938
      DOI:10.1145/1501750
      • General Chairs:
      • Masa Inakage,
      • Adrian David Cheok

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      • Published: 3 December 2008

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