A low-cost interactive writing board for primary education using distinct augmented reality markers

Dawar Khan; Inam ur Rehman; Sehat Ullah; Waheed Ahmad; Zhanglin Cheng; Gul Jabeen; Hirokazu Kato

doi:10.3390/su11205720

A low-cost interactive writing board for primary education using distinct augmented reality markers

Dawar Khan^*, Inam ur Rehman, Sehat Ullah, Waheed Ahmad, Zhanglin Cheng, Gul Jabeen, Hirokazu Kato

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Educational institutions demand cost-effective and simple-to-use augmented reality systems. ARToolKit, an open-source computer tracking library for the creation of augmented reality applications that overlay virtual imagery on the real world, is such a system. It uses a simple camera and black-and-white markers printed on paper. However, due to inter-marker confusion, if the marker distinctions are not ensured, the markers are often miss-recognized. This paper presents an ARToolKit-based InteractiveWriting Board (IWB) with a simple mechanism for designing confusion-free marker libraries. The board is used for teaching single characters of Arabic/Urdu to primary level students. It uses a simple ARToolKit marker for the recognition of each character. After marker recognition, the IWB displays the corresponding image, helping students with character understanding and pronunciation. Experimental results reveal that the system improves students' motivation and learning skills.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	5720
Journal	Sustainability (Switzerland)
Volume	11
Issue number	20
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/su11205720
State	Published - Oct 1 2019

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Funding Information:
Acknowledgments: This work was partially supported by the NSFC (61972388), the CAS grant (GJHZ1862), and the Shenzhen Basic Research Program (JCYJ20180507182222355). We are thankful to the anonymous reviewers for their valuable suggestions. We are also thankful to the experiments’ participants.

Funding Information:
This work was partially supported by the NSFC (61972388), the CAS grant (GJHZ1862), and the Shenzhen Basic Research Program (JCYJ20180507182222355). We are thankful to the anonymous reviewers for their valuable suggestions. We are also thankful to the experiments' participants.

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© 2019 by the authors.

Keywords

Augmented reality
Computer graphics
Interactive white-boards
Primary education
Technology-enhanced learning

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Computer Science (miscellaneous)
Geography, Planning and Development
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Hardware and Architecture
Computer Networks and Communications
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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