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Tangible avatar and tangible earth: a novel interface for astronomy education

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Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems archive
CHI '07 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems table of contents

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SESSION: Work-in-progress table of contents

Pages: 2777 - 2782

Year of Publication: 2007

ISBN:978-1-59593-642-4

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Jun Yamashita	University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Hideaki Kuzuoka	University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Chiaki Fujimon	Yahoo Japan Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
Michitaka Hirose	University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

The capability to support spatial perception plays an important role in developing material for astronomy education. Considering this, we developed a novel tangible user interface consisting of a glove and a physical avatar attached on its surface. Virtual reality graphics of the solar system can be controlled manually with the glove and avatar. Preliminary experiments have indicated the advantages of the proposed tangible user interface for astronomy education.

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