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http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/top/virtual-word-teaches-deaf-children-math-189395.php
A group of computer graphics tech students at Purdue's Envision Center for Data Perceptualizatoin have thrown together a bunch of cool technologies to create a virtual world designed to teach deaf children math.
The world relies on stereoscopic glasses, a device to track head movement, a wrist tracker and telemetric "pinch gloves" to monitor hand and finger movement
The idea is that the child can go into this virtual world and interact with a cartoon rabbit, robot and pig with sign language, learning to count and do basic math in the process.
They wear lightweight stereoscopic glasses so the virtual reality images appear three-dimensional. A device monitors the student's head position so the environment is consistently redrawn to match the user's perspective. A wrist tracker and telemetric "pinch gloves" monitor the student's hand and finger movements allowing interaction with the virtual environment and prompting responses from the characters.
The virtual reality program is designed to provide early elementary school age students with disabilities with a number of active, individualized learning conditions:
• The ability to control their environment.
• The ability to engage in learning activities at their own pace.
• The ability to repeat activities as needed.
• The ability to see or feel items or processes in concrete terms.
• The ability to practice daily living tasks in a safe and barrier-free
environment.
• Motivation to succeed.
For example, in a virtual candy store environment the student communicates to the storekeeper in sign language, some of which is specific to mathematics. Pinch gloves allow students to count candies and to add and subtract by putting candy on or off the counter. The task can be repeated over and over at the student's own pace while providing consistent and understandable feedback.
What an amazing use of technology and computer games. While I'm blown away with the concept and its real word use a tiny part of me can't help but think "When can I play Gears of War with this set up?" Brian Crecente
A group of computer graphics tech students at Purdue's Envision Center for Data Perceptualizatoin have thrown together a bunch of cool technologies to create a virtual world designed to teach deaf children math.
The world relies on stereoscopic glasses, a device to track head movement, a wrist tracker and telemetric "pinch gloves" to monitor hand and finger movement
The idea is that the child can go into this virtual world and interact with a cartoon rabbit, robot and pig with sign language, learning to count and do basic math in the process.
They wear lightweight stereoscopic glasses so the virtual reality images appear three-dimensional. A device monitors the student's head position so the environment is consistently redrawn to match the user's perspective. A wrist tracker and telemetric "pinch gloves" monitor the student's hand and finger movements allowing interaction with the virtual environment and prompting responses from the characters.
The virtual reality program is designed to provide early elementary school age students with disabilities with a number of active, individualized learning conditions:
• The ability to control their environment.
• The ability to engage in learning activities at their own pace.
• The ability to repeat activities as needed.
• The ability to see or feel items or processes in concrete terms.
• The ability to practice daily living tasks in a safe and barrier-free
environment.
• Motivation to succeed.
For example, in a virtual candy store environment the student communicates to the storekeeper in sign language, some of which is specific to mathematics. Pinch gloves allow students to count candies and to add and subtract by putting candy on or off the counter. The task can be repeated over and over at the student's own pace while providing consistent and understandable feedback.
What an amazing use of technology and computer games. While I'm blown away with the concept and its real word use a tiny part of me can't help but think "When can I play Gears of War with this set up?" Brian Crecente