Interactive Virtual Training Environment With Web Camera For Science And Engineering Education
Hassan Rajaei, Arsen Gasparyan · 2020
Web-based interactive environments exhibit impressive potentials for educational purposes.Web-based simulation (WBS) offers such a surrounding.Numerous courses in science and engineering can employ WBS techniques to explain and demonstrate complex concepts for students through a simple and pleasant setting.Virtual laboratories can be built with simulation techniques to guide our students learning complex subjects.A major difficulty, however, concerns whether the simplicity may come at the expense of effectiveness of the learning surroundings.One remedy to this problem suggests use of special equipments often used for e.g.pilot training.Another example includes use of digital gloves and head-mounted devices in virtual reality applications.Nevertheless, these equipments are expensive and often not available to most students.In contrast, our solution suggests use of inexpensive tools like web-cameras as an interface to interact with the simulated objects in cyberspace, and WBS as a core building block of the virtual laboratories.In this paper we propose a paradigm for virtual training environment (VTE) that uses webcameras as the main interface to the platform.The interactive setting enables the students to move the simulated objects with their hands through the web-cam in cyberspace.In addition, the platform allows the users to collaborate with other students in the virtual world to perform their training tasks in virtual laboratories.We present a proof of the concept, examine the limitations and discuss the opportunities this paradigm can offer.This paper describes a new method to interact with web-based Virtual Training Environment (VTE) using web-cameras.Section 2 describes the virtual learning environment including the web-based simulation.To better illustrate the web-cam interactions with the virtual world, two case studies are developed and presented in Section 3. The details of the web-cam interaction are sketched in Section 4. Related work is examined in Section 5. Finally, Section 6 outlines some discussions, future work, and concluding remarks. An Advanced Learning Environment for Engineering EducationThis section briefly describes key components of the virtual learning environment 6, 9 .The system is distributed and is accessed by students remotely or locally.An overview of the system is presented below together with some of its key modules.Page 15.790.3