• DocumentCode
    2091468
  • Title

    Virtual Chemical Experiment Using Cyber Assistant Professor: CAP

  • Author

    Matsuda, Hiroshi ; Shindo, Yoshiaki

  • Author_Institution
    Nippon Inst. of Technol., Nippon
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    1-5 July 2008
  • Firstpage
    977
  • Lastpage
    981
  • Abstract
    This paper describes the summary of cyber assistant professor (CAP) and the scenario language named cyber person scenario language 3(CPSL3). On teaching the theory, principle or mechanism of science, the most effective teaching material may be an actual video. However, actually it is difficult to take pictures of invisible science phenomena. Moreover the production cost of the actual video may be too large depending on the subject and it is difficult to produce interactive educational contents. Against this situation, CAP provides the capability of producing interactive educational contents which can visualize the invisible science phenomena by using 3D-CG animations, as easy to produce as a Web page on the Internet. And on the modification of scenarios, CAP also provides the capability of changing, revising or extending the story of virtual actorpsilas speech and action or the moving of stage parts on the spot of syllabus planning. This reusability is superior to actual videos. This paper also describes about teaching materials developed by using CPSL3 and the details of virtual experiment using CAP. As a result of our experiment, we are convinced that our system can supply suitable teaching materials of science to the junior high school students.
  • Keywords
    Internet; chemistry computing; computer aided instruction; computer animation; data visualisation; interactive video; teaching; virtual reality; 3D-CG animation; Internet; Web page; cyber assistant professor; cyber person scenario language 3; interactive educational content; interactive video; junior high school student; science phenomena visualization; syllabus planning; teaching material; virtual chemical experiment; Animation; Chemicals; Costs; Education; Educational institutions; Internet; Production; Speech; Visualization; Web pages; Computer Graphics; Cyber Assistant Professor; Virtual Experiment; e-Learning;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Advanced Learning Technologies, 2008. ICALT '08. Eighth IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Santander, Cantabria
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-7695-3167-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICALT.2008.109
  • Filename
    4561883