SBIR Phase I: A STEM curriculum platform using augmented reality for real-time collaboration and problem solving

SBIR 第一阶段：使用增强现实进行实时协作和解决问题的 STEM 课程平台

• 批准号: 1913637
• 负责人: Amanda Thompson
• 金额: $ 22.45万
• 依托单位: Explore Interactive, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-07-01 至 2020-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1913637&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; STEM; curriculum; platform

This SBIR Phase I project develops a collaborative augmented reality (AR) learning platform to build knowledge and skills targeted by Next Generation Science Standards through early, hands-on design of scientific systems. Troubleshooting - diagnosing, explaining and fixing errors - is an element of the design process often missing from educational activities as it is difficult to execute with large groups of students, but AR can address elegantly. Furthermore, expert instructors and peers need not be in the same room to collaboratively solve problems presented as interactive three-dimensional system models. Collaborative AR, requiring only common devices, will substantially increase affordability and access to substantive and engaging science, engineering, technology and math (STEM) within formal and informal, as well as classroom and home learning environments. Without the barriers of expensive equipment, dangerous materials or trained facilitators, educational AR is poised for dramatic growth, commanding an estimated $12B globally by 2020. Earlier and more effective STEM education provides fundamental knowledge to motivate the scientists and engineers of tomorrow to aspire and contribute to leading-edge discoveries and innovations. At the highest level, this work will benefit society by increasing the supply of collaborative, STEM-proficient, critical thinkers who are poised to prosper in the workforce of the future. Collaborative AR must surmount technical hurdles in image recognition, integration and pedagogy to achieve acceptance in elementary education. Capabilities of existing AR technologies suffer shortcomings in the functionality required for real-time recognition of three-dimensional space with common devices, including issues with the camera, image projection, and processing. Technical innovations are required for new methods to identify and place targets within the uniformity of learning environments. The additional challenge of implementing live collaboration in a multi-user setting requires technical innovations around the seamless integration of various devices as well as the development and testing of intuitive user interfaces from both student and instructor perspectives. These include how to measure behaviors, handle conflicting actions, and how to give, receive and respond to the dynamic instructor feedback. Understanding, measuring and reporting the educational advantages and shortcomings in motivating and developing diverse learners in distinct learning environments cannot be overlooked in implementing technology tools. Meaningful pedagogical innovations must occur to effectively leverage the new power of AR without overlooking unintended impacts on students or their educational outcomes. These specifications require novel curriculum design both to achieve the cross-disciplinary understanding through increasingly complex problems and to deliver the full impact promised by educational AR.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该SBIR第一阶段项目开发了一个协作增强现实（AR）学习平台，通过科学系统的早期动手设计来构建下一代科学标准所针对的知识和技能。故障排除-诊断，解释和修复错误-是设计过程中的一个元素，通常在教育活动中缺失，因为很难与大群学生一起执行，但AR可以优雅地解决。此外，专家教师和同行不需要在同一个房间，以协作解决问题，提出了交互式三维系统模型。协作AR只需要普通设备，将大大提高正式和非正式以及课堂和家庭学习环境中的可负担性和对实质性和引人入胜的科学，工程，技术和数学（STEM）的访问。如果没有昂贵的设备、危险的材料或训练有素的主持人的障碍，教育AR将有望大幅增长，到2020年全球估计将达到120亿美元。早期和更有效的STEM教育提供了基础知识，以激励未来的科学家和工程师渴望并为前沿的发现和创新做出贡献。在最高层面上，这项工作将通过增加协作，精通STEM，批判性思想家的供应来造福社会，这些思想家准备在未来的劳动力中蓬勃发展。协作AR必须克服图像识别、集成和教学方面的技术障碍，才能在基础教育中获得认可。现有AR技术的能力在使用普通设备实时识别三维空间所需的功能方面存在缺陷，包括相机、图像投影和处理的问题。需要进行技术革新，以便采用新方法，在统一的学习环境中确定和确定目标。在多用户环境中实施实时协作的额外挑战需要围绕各种设备的无缝集成进行技术创新，以及从学生和教师的角度开发和测试直观的用户界面。这些包括如何衡量行为，处理冲突的行动，以及如何给予，接收和响应动态教师反馈。在实施技术工具时，不能忽视了解、衡量和报告在不同的学习环境中激励和发展不同学习者的教育优势和不足。必须进行有意义的教学创新，以有效地利用AR的新力量，而不会忽视对学生或他们的教育成果的意外影响。这些规格要求新颖的课程设计，以实现跨学科的理解，通过日益复杂的问题，并提供教育AR所承诺的全面影响。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。