A Direct Manipulation Interface for Authoring Animations of Science Experiments via Motion Beautification

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25560115
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Educational technology
• Research Institution: Kyushu Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: NOMA Tsukasa 九州工業大学, 大学院情報工学研究院, 教授 (60228351)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): YAMAMOTO Kunio 九州工業大学, 大学院情報工学研究院, 助教 (90363407)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): BABA Hiromi 近畿大学, 産業理工学部, 講師 (60284593)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: eラーニング / ビデオ教材 / アニメーション / 理科実験 / 直接操作

Outline of Final Research Achievements

For producing video teaching materials of science experiments, we develop an authoring system via computer animation instead of live-action.　The system should fulfill the two requirements: (1) Even novice users including science teachers can use the system, and (2) the resulting animations do not have excess reality to accurately convey the contents of target experiments via animation. We then developed a mechanism where motions of laboratory equipment are captured, the intentions of operations are recognized, and the beautified animations are generated.

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