Recently, HCI Lab at Masaryk
University, Brno, Czech Republic published a scientific paper at the Special
Issue Virtual Reality and Its Application in Cultural Heritage, Applied
Sciences, sponsored by MDPI. The paper is entitled “Investigating the Learning
Process of Folk Dances Using Mobile Augmented Reality”. It presents a prototype
mobile augmented reality application for assisting the process of learning folk
dances. At the first stage, one folk dance was digitized using motion tracking
technology based on recordings from professional dancers.
Avatar representations are
synchronized with the digital representation of the dance. To assess the
effectiveness of mobile augmented reality, it was comparatively evaluated with
a large back-projection system in laboratory conditions. Twenty healthy
participants took part in the study, and their movements were captured using
motion capture system and then compared with the recordings from the
professional dancers. Experimental results indicate that augmented reality (AR)
has the potential to be used for learning process.
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