A development of 3D augmented reality mobile application to facilitating ecotourism-based herbal learning in MFU botanical garden
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Author list: Nobnop R., Wongwatktit C., Wongta J., Soponronnarit K.
Publisher: Hindawi
Publication year: 2018
Start page: 531
End page: 540
Number of pages: 10
ISBN: 9789869721424
eISSN: 1745-4557
Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)
Abstract
Visiting a botanical garden to study plants are difficult for tourists to understand according to their scientific information and contexts truly. With ecotourism-based learning, the tourists can enjoy learning with the guiding support; moreover, the traveling experience becomes more interesting. In this perspective, Augmented Reality technology could help enhance this learning experience by providing a beautiful graphics and sound effect. 2D and 3D graphic could be able to describe herbal plant’s character in this botanical garden. The visitors can study the plant by both of the real herbal plants and augmented reality data technology. Before conducting this project, all requirements have been gathered from botanical garden officers and visitors, which mostly preferred to have the freedom to learn by their own paths while enjoying the garden. Therefore, the mobile application has been designed and developed. The visitors can use the developed mobile application and walk through the garden in a self-learning environment. To make sure that the visitors could be able to seek for herbal plants that they want to study, the application creates a realistic 3D plant model, which make it more convenient to match the data with the real trees. The plant's information could present a plant’s character and how the plant has been used by local people. This enables visitors to study the garden from the graphic and sound of the application. This mobile application can be further developed in the future, which could create more engaging and meaningful learning activities in the gardens. The visitors could have fun while learning at the same time from the mobile learning activity. © 2018 Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education..All Rights Reserved.
Keywords
Augment reality, Botanical garden, Ecotourism, Herbal learning, Mobile learning
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