From last week, Mike and I have decided to work together for our final project.
We have got our basic structure of using AR in lessons for KS1 students in primary school.
We made some animations in 3D studio max and convert the files in .osg to import them into BuildAR.
Also, we did prototype some mock Cyberdice, and then did some testing trying to be as similar as a classroom format.





Our plan to test in Chasewater primary school for getting users' feedback and more depth of understanding of our project was on the 23rd and 24th of February.
Those days were really meaningful for us, also it was my first experience of teaching kids, I enjoyed a lot although it was tiring.

Some testing analysis we have discussed such as the sizes of Cyberdice and cybercodes need to be smaller, and they have to be strong enough for children to play with, it should be easy and simple for teachers to use...etc.

We have gained many useful feedback and insight from this primary research!

Dice Test

Today I am testing augmented reality on the dice which has 6 cybercodes on each side of it.

It seems more difficult for BuildAR to register the cybercodes on the dice as there are some similar cybercodes, also the camera isn't brilliant.

Sometimes when the environment isn't bright enough, it's difficult for the camera to read them.

The materials and colours of models can't still be programmed into BiuldAR, models would look much nicer with texture and colours.

The survey in the primary school where Mike's mum works is going on, it's a quick primary research about what cartoon characters age 8 to 10 children like, and what their favourite computer games are, in order to develop the interaction between children and the augmented reality game. The result should be gained after a week as the school needs to get permit from students' parents.

Learning from the book--Augmented Reality A Practical Guilde

Mike and I were gonna go to Cat Hill Lansdown Centre yesterday and today,
but the snow is still a lot outside.
The biggest snow in 18 years!
so we emailed some people for help and hopefully they can guilde us to a good direction.
Also we got a book today--Augmented Reality A Practical Guilde.
We got some information from the book,
the website http://www.artag.net/
it provide us a programme,Artag,which is similat to BuildAR that you can create your own models and programme them into this programme. The advantage of this programme is that you can programme in materials of the models,which makes your models look vivid. The book also tolds us that what kind of files we should create in order to match this programme. However,most information in this book we can't understand as it is about coding languages for the programme.