Tangible avatar and tangible earth
Jun Yamashita, Hideaki Kuzuoka, Chiaki Fujimon, Michitaka Hirose · 2007
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.