Alerting accidents with ambiguity: a tangible tabletop application for safe and independent chemistry experiments

Authors:
Akifumi Sokan;Nobuhiro Inagawa;Kosuke Nishijo;Norihide Shinagawa;Hironori Egi;Kaori Fujinami
Affiliations:
Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Tokyo Universtiy of Agriculture and Technology, Japan;Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Tokyo Universtiy of Agriculture and Technology, Japan;Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Tokyo Universtiy of Agriculture and Technology, Japan;Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Tokyo Universtiy of Agriculture and Technology, Japan;Information Media Center, Tokyo Universtiy of Agriculture and Technology, Japan;Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Tokyo Universtiy of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
Venue:
UIC'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Ubiquitous intelligence and computing
Year:
2010

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Abstract

We propose a tangible learning system that facilitates chemistry experiments in a safe and independent manner. The system displays messages that alert a student to avoid a possible accident based on the experimental context. Here, we introduce the way of information presentation with three-dimensional ambiguity: semantic, spatial and temporal. Also, a prototype tabletop application named A3 (A-CUBE) is presented, which extracts various contexts in a procedure of a chemistry experiment. Finally, we report on an evaluation experiment to measure its usability and to test the feasibility.