Exploring the Affordances of Augmented Reality Contexts in Educational Settings

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Abstract

In augmented reality, the real and virtual worlds are combined, affording educational benefits to its users (Garzón et al., 2019). By reviewing augmented reality applications used in educational settings, we assess environments and developers that use the affordances of augmented reality. We employ theories of embodied cognition, transfer, and affordances.
Sixty-one augmented reality applications were sampled from academic publications and application stores and assessed using researcher-developed codes of the application and its use of augmented reality. The results indicate that applications mostly use augmented reality incidentally, and that games, as compared to simulations, make use of the affordances from augmented reality. These findings unveil how augmented reality has been implemented and in what environments it is used most effectively.

Authors

• Raymond Patt, University of Delaware

• Syed-Ali Asif, University of Delaware

• Yiqin Cao, University of Delaware

• Teomara Rutherford, University of Delaware

• Chrystalla Mouza, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Chien-Chung Shen, University of Delaware