LearnAR: Augmented Reality Education App
Hybrid App Design
The brief challenged me to focus on a cutting-edge technology and applied this to a current issue of my choice. I chose to explore Augmented Reality, creating an educational application named 'LearnAR'. This aimed to reignite student interest in the subject of history.
Using it, teachers can send AR homework tasks to students, enabling them to explore the object by visualising it directly on their devices. After taking on a set of questions to test their knowledge, marks are sent to the teacher and automatically added to their digital mark book. For contextual questions, teachers can provide audio feedback, saving them time on admin tasks.
For my research, I looked into competing AR apps, other homework tools, as well as examined research papers which identified the benefits of using AR within history education. In conducting a survey, I obtained data from teachers and students alike, gaining an idea of their preferences towards the app. Conducting a large amount of research into my audience helped me to ensure that I kept the users' needs at the centre of the design process.
