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Building a General Purpose Educational Augmented Reality Application: The Case of ARTutor

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New Realities, Mobile Systems and Applications (IMCL 2021)

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Augmented Reality (AR) technology is constantly evolving. Nowadays, there are AR platforms that allow educators to build AR experiences for their students. Most of these tools are not free and have specific domain orientation, allowing instructors to use them for specific domains and courses. The main aim of this study is to provide details on the approach, design and development frameworks that developers have to follow in order to build a general- purpose educational AR tool. The available technologies will be presented and an optimum approach and design will be proposed. In addition, this study presents the architecture and the adopted technologies of the general-purpose educational AR platform ARTutor (Version 3), a free tool for educators and their students. Compared to other AR platforms, ARTutor is a completely free and easy-to-use tool. With ARTutor, educators can create augmented books and add virtual content on top of printed material. The new version of ARTutor is based on state-of-the-art technologies such as Google’s ARCore and Apple’s ARKit. Evaluation results with pre-service teachers revealed that ARTutor is a valuable tool for education and it provides an easy way to implement AR experiences thus it can be easily adopted by various educational approaches.

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    George Terzopoulos, Ioannis Kazanidis & Avgoustos Tsinakos

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Terzopoulos, G., Kazanidis, I., Tsinakos, A. (2022). Building a General Purpose Educational Augmented Reality Application: The Case of ARTutor. In: Auer, M.E., Tsiatsos, T. (eds) New Realities, Mobile Systems and Applications. IMCL 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 411. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96296-8_16

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