Touchable Universe: Demonstrating the Potential of Haptic Technology

可触摸的宇宙：展示触觉技术的潜力

• 批准号: 971434
• 金额: $ 49.17万
• 依托单位: ANARKIK3D LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Small Business Research Initiative
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=971434
• 关键词: Touchable; Universe; Demonstrating; Potential; Haptic

Haptics is an emerging technology that enables people to feel digital information. When combined with 2D and 3D audio-visual interfaces, it offers enormous potential for education. For instance, it allows students to experience the feeling of drilling in a virtual patient’s mouth, or compare pushing snowballs uphill on Earth and Europa, or feel soundwaves hitting an ear drum. Haptics makes the virtual universe touchable. In phase one, we demonstrated feasibility. Working with teachers, education designers and students, we defined the general usability requirements for vivid learning experiences that linked directly to the national curriculum, with a particular focus on ‘hard to teach’ topics. The resultant apps were then evaluated by educational and business partners, including teachers and an international distributor, against a matrix including cost, usability, educational value and market appeal. The results were outstandingly positive and resulted in many expressions of interest from potential partners. As we move into phase two, we propose to prove the efficacy of the approach and develop a scalable and credible route to market. To that end, we are delighted to be partnering with a leading exam board – OCR (Oxford, Cambridge and the RSA) – to design, pilot and evaluate new types of haptic learning packs built around compulsory subjects that are hard to teach, or where students frequently fall short in exams. The initial packs will focus on dissection, the way in which ears respond to sound waves, and 3D printing/coding. If we can prove that haptics can directly improve performance in particular exam questions, we can then move towards commercialisation with an exam board that sells products in 160 countries. Of course, learning is not just about exams. To support students in the equally important tasks of exploration and creativity, we will launch a haptics-themed co-branded website (OCR receive 1m hits a month). The site will promote knowledge exchange on different aspects of haptics, including coding, 3D printing and the internet of things. It will also allow schools to download our award-winning haptics software, and link into the BBC’s Microbit and Make It Digital campaigns. By encouraging widespread adoption of haptics in schools we will support the sales path for the learning packs and improve our understanding of the ed-tech market with a view to creating a new generation of affordable, swappable and topic-specific control devices. Taken together, these deliverables will also drive up interest in science, technology and design – three sectors of our economy where demand for employees far outstrips supply. ‘One of the best ways for pupils to learn something, and remember something, is to experience it and this allows them to do that. ….. I honestly think that the whole package will become invaluable to schools and I just think it is really exciting, I really do!’ – Alix Morris, phase one evaluator and teacher.

触觉是一种新兴的技术，使人们能够感受数字信息。当与2D和3D视听界面相结合时，它为教育提供了巨大的潜力。例如，它允许学生体验在虚拟患者口中钻孔的感觉，或者比较在地球和木卫二上推雪球上山，或者感觉声波击中耳膜。触觉让虚拟世界触手可及。在第一阶段，我们展示了可行性。我们与教师、教育设计师和学生合作，定义了与国家课程直接相关的生动学习体验的通用可用性要求，特别关注“难以教”的主题。然后，教育和商业合作伙伴（包括教师和一家国际分销商）根据包括成本、可用性、教育价值和市场吸引力在内的矩阵对这些应用程序进行评估。结果非常积极，许多潜在伙伴表示有兴趣。当我们进入第二阶段时，我们建议证明该方法的有效性，并开发一条可扩展且可靠的市场途径。为此，我们很高兴能与领先的考试委员会- OCR（牛津，剑桥和RSA）合作，设计，试点和评估围绕必修科目构建的新型触觉学习包，这些科目很难教，或者学生经常在考试中失败。最初的包将专注于解剖，耳朵对声波的反应方式，以及3D打印/编码。如果我们能够证明触觉技术可以直接提高特定考试问题的表现，那么我们就可以通过在160个国家销售产品的考试委员会走向商业化。当然，学习不仅仅是考试。为了支持学生在探索和创造力同样重要的任务，我们将推出一个以触觉为主题的联合品牌网站（OCR每月收到100万次点击）。该网站将促进触觉不同方面的知识交流，包括编码，3D打印和物联网。它还将允许学校下载我们屡获殊荣的触觉软件，并链接到BBC的Microbit和Make It Digital活动。通过鼓励在学校广泛采用触觉技术，我们将支持学习包的销售途径，并提高我们对教育技术市场的理解，以期创造新一代负担得起的，可更换的和特定主题的控制设备。综合而言，这些成果也将提高人们对科学、技术和设计的兴趣，这三个部门对雇员的需求远远超过供应。“学生学习和记忆东西的最好方法之一就是体验，这让他们能够做到这一点。…..老实说，我认为整个方案将成为宝贵的学校，我只是认为这是真的令人兴奋，我真的这样做！- 阿利克斯莫里斯，第一阶段评估员兼教师。