Projects | A Free Graduate Student Seminar

Wireless mobile devices (cell phones, portable gaming platforms, personal digital assistants) are rapidly becoming commonplace personal items. These handhelds provide the opportunity to overlay digital data and simulated experience as students interact with the physical world. Educational "augmented realities" merge the virtual and the real, immersing participants in collaborative learning experiences that draw on spatial attributes of their location. This session describes lessons learned from two augmented reality projects and discusses implications for designing augmented realities for a variety of subject areas and student populations.