Physics Education Support System by Telexistence Experiment

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24650564
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Educational technology
• Research Institution: Nippon Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: SATO Sugiya 日本工業大学, 工学部, 教授 (00286022)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): HATTORI Kunihiko 日本工業大学, 工学部, 教授 (90261578)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 物理実験 / 遠隔実験 / 演示実験

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Although experiments are useful for physics and science education, the burden and risks involved with preparation is a problem. The aim of this study is developing new experimental devices and automating these devices to allow experiments to also be conducted from remote locations without devices as if the experimenter was actually present in the laboratory(telexistence), and developing teaching methods that use these devices. Several types of new experimental devices, including devices involving risks such as lasers and electric discharge, were developed, and succeeded in monitoring actual experiments with a network camera. Automation techniques using physical computing were devised, and simple automation techniques were investigated. Additionally, an attempt was made to systematize the use of demonstration experiments on various scales.

Free Research Field

物理教育、プラズマ物理学