Summary
International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications
2016
Session Number:T2-5
Session:
Number:4873
An AR-based Hands-on Study System on Fruits and Vegetables for Preschoolers
Shinobu Tsuchiya, Mitsunori Makino ,
pp.559-562
Publication Date:2016/7/10
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
In this paper, an AR-based hands-on study system is proposed, which provides experiences preschoolers about cutting virtual fruits/vegetables. The system consists of a tablet PC with AR system, which displays overlapped images of virtual fruits and vegetables according to cubic AR markers. A preschooler can hold, rotate and cut the virtual foods by manipulate the markers in his/her both hands. Through the intuitive experience, he/she is expected to get interests in structure of the food. Comparing with handling the real foods, the system provides limited but simple, clean and safe environment. The proposed system is evaluated by observation of experiences by preschoolers. From questionnaires to preschool teachers, it is shown that the proposed system can increase the preschoolers' interests in foods, while some improvements and addition to the features are pointed out.