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Creating a Virtual Chemistry Lab Experiment Using Xbox Kinect

Creating a Virtual Chemistry Lab Experiment Using Xbox Kinect. Kurt Winkelmann Chemistry Department. Background. Online education is very popular and is now an accepted method of learning Rigorous online science classes are not common G ood virtual labs are hard to make. Background.

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Creating a Virtual Chemistry Lab Experiment Using Xbox Kinect

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  1. Creating a Virtual Chemistry Lab Experiment Using Xbox Kinect Kurt Winkelmann Chemistry Department

  2. Background • Online education is very popular and is now an accepted method of learning • Rigorous online science classes are not common • Good virtual labs are hard to make

  3. Background • Online labs would have many advantages • Students complete them on their own schedule • No chemical waste disposal • No supplies consumed • Less infrastructure for school • Educators do not know how much students learn in virtual labs • We need to find out

  4. Research Questions • How do virtual chemistry lab experiments help students • learn chemistry? • Appreciate and enjoy chemistry? • In what ways do virtual lab experiments not help students, compared to real world experiments? • Is it possible to design a virtual chemistry lab experiment which incorporates kinesthetic (body) motion?

  5. Kinect • Enhances capabilities of Xbox • Full body motion sensing • Facial recognition • Voice recognition • Sensor and SDK available for PC • Program using C++, C# and Visual Basic

  6. Example of Kinect in Education • Math (1:00 – 1:35)

  7. Preliminary Results and Goals • 2012 results: • students developed physics engine to model movement and physical behavior of objects • Gravity • Momentum • 2013 goals: • Create objects that the user manipulates • Include chemical behavior of objects

  8. Other goals • Kinect collects user data in an online database • Instructor can review student performance and results • Include voice recognition for commands • Increases options for performing different tasks • Makes experiment available to physically disabled • Include facial recognition • Instructors verifies identity of student performing experiment

  9. Interested? • kwinkel@fit.edu • 674-7376 • 127 Olin Physical Sciences Building

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