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Mobile Augmented Reality with Audio

Supporting Fieldwork of Cultural Sciences Students in Florence

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Information Technology and Open Source: Applications for Education, Innovation, and Sustainability (SEFM 2012)

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In this article the use of augmented reality with a smartphone for fieldwork of Cultural Sciences students is discussed based on two pilots in Florence. A tool named ARLearn developed to support different learning in different contexts using the multimedia capabilities and location based service on smartphones. In the pilots assignments were given in spoken messages and students collected notes by recording their own voice and taking pictures of artifacts in Florence. The use of the tool for fieldwork helped students with systematical collection of data for their essay. The educational design and ARLearn toolkit is developed further to enable individual fieldwork students and other educational scenarios.

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Notes

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    Apps can be found a at www.layar.com, www.aroundmeapp.com and www.aloqa.com

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    www.wikitude.com

  3. 3.

    http://portal.ou.nl/en/web/topic-mobile-learning/home/-/wiki/Main/ARLearn

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  1. Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies, Open Universiteit, Heerlen, The Netherlands

    Stefaan Ternier, Fred de Vries, Dirk Börner & Marcus Specht

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  1. United Nations University, Macau, Macao

    Antonio Cerone

  2. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Genoa, Italy

    Donatella Persico

  3. United Nations University, Macau, Macao

    Sara Fernandes

  4. Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom

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  5. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

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  6. Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom

    Siraj Ahmed Shaikh

  7. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Ioannis Stamelos

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Ternier, S., de Vries, F., Börner, D., Specht, M. (2014). Mobile Augmented Reality with Audio. In: Cerone, A., et al. Information Technology and Open Source: Applications for Education, Innovation, and Sustainability. SEFM 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7991. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54338-8_4

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