ARiSE - Augmented Reality in School Environments
ARiSE will develop a teaching platform that adapts augmented reality technology as used in museums in order to enhance learning and teaching at school.
- Strategic objective: Strengthening the Integration of the ICT research effort in an Enlarged Europe
- Project type: Specific targeted research project (STREP)
- Start date: 1 January 2006
- Duration: 36 months
- EU funding: 1 992 000
- Number of partners: 7
- Project coordinator: IMK, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Sankt Augustin, Germany
- Contact: Mr. Jürgen Wind
ARiSE will develop an augmented-reality-teaching platform for school classes. Existing augmented reality technology for museums is adapted to the everyday learning environment of teachers and students. The augmented-reality-teaching platform will provide 3D visual augmentation of real objects and sound and will be integrated with a multi-media database and an e-learning tool.
ARiSE promotes team work, collaborative learning and communication between students, classes and schools, even across country borders. The teaching platform will support this on the technical level by providing remote collaboration and communication functionalities.
ARiSE combines classical teaching material with audiovisual media. The use of 3D presentation and interaction techniques will lead to better understanding of complex scientific and cultural content. The interactive approach of the teaching platform raises the level of participation of students in the learning process and motivates them.
A major part of the project is dedicated to the exploration of new methods and tools for content development by users who are no augmented reality experts. In addition to content provided by professional providers, teachers as well as students will be able to create lessons for the teaching platform on their own. Collaboration between students will include the creation of content by students for students.
The research and development process is based on close cooperation with schools from the beginning of the project. All developments will be measured by real life tests in participating schools.
The consortium consists of scientists and practitioners from the fields of computer science, pedagogy and didactics from Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania, Malta and Romania.