IMMERSIVE EDUCATION IN SMART EDUCATIONAL BUILDINGS
IMMERSIVE EDUCATION IN SMART EDUCATIONAL BUILDINGS

Summary/Abstract: This paper is focused on a new way of learning, based on the concept of immersive education, close related to augmented and virtual reality technologies. These technologies allow young people to experiment, learn and understand many subjects, even in the absence of the supporting physical infrastructure. The concept of immersive education can be implemented using a smart building educational infrastructure. This approach is explained in the paper, using as support the augmented reality and indoor positioning methods. These two main technologies enable teachers and students to experiment a non-traditional way of learning, by using an application which displays interactive content depending on the location of the user: if the student is in the biology lab room, different content regarding biology will be displayed; if the student changes the lab room with the chemistry one, the augmented reality will be full of chemistry experiments, substances and formulas. The goal should make students learn school subjects with pleasure, to make them understand easily concepts that sometimes cannot be experimented in reality. The mobile application localizes the user in the indoor environment and further augments the reality with different objects, related to the user’s position. When computing the position, the orientation is also a key in this solution, because the user should be able to see the object from any orientation. The paper gives some details about the proposed indoor positioning method, justifying the approach, as well as different aspects related to the importance of immersion in this kind of education.

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