Interactive Virtual Haptics-Augmented Statics and Dynamics Activities

该项目的目标是开发触觉增强软件活动和基于互联网的教程，并将这些工具整合到本科静力学和动力学工程课程中。具体来说，研究人员正在(1)开发一套完整的触觉增强静态和动态活动，以补充标准教科书；(2)在两所大型工程学院对这些产品进行评估；(3)开发将这些产品整合到静力学和动力学课程中的课程；(4)将教育教育学研究应用于体验性探究学习，实施基于学习者的假设生成和检验程序，鼓励学习者将触觉反应转化为现实世界的原因；(5)在评价过程中采用设计研究方法，使其成为开发过程的一个组成部分。他们正在努力将一套独特的基于cd的软件活动和教程商业化，这将使学生能够改变参数，预测答案，与动画互动，并通过触觉设备感受结果。在一位经验丰富的独立评估人员的指导下，评估工作正在审查学生的视频作业，以及学生调查和焦点小组，以监督学生的学习情况。更广泛的影响将包括传播其产品和成果，特别是通过商业化和将材料与成功的教科书联系起来。

The goal of the project, which builds on prior NSF support, is to develop haptics-augmented software activities and Internet-based tutorials and to integrat these tools into undergraduate statics and dynamics engineering courses. Specifically the investigators are (1) developing a full suite of haptics-augmented statics and dynamics activities to complement standard textbooks; (2) evaluating these products in two large engineering schools; (3) developing curricula that integrates these products into statics and dynamics courses; (4) applying educational pedagogy research for experiential inquiry-based learning and implementing a learner-based hypothesis generation and testing procedure to encourage learners to translate tactile responses to their real world causes; and (5) using a design research approach in the evaluation process to make it an integral part of the development process. They are working to commercialize a unique CD-based set of software activities and tutorials that will enable students to change parameters, predict answers, interact with animations, and feel the results through the haptic device. The evaluation effort, under the direction of an experienced, independent evaluator, is examining student work captured on video along with student surveys and focus groups to monitor student learning. The broader impacts will include the dissemination of their products and results, particularly through commercialization and linking the material to successful textbooks.