Pedagogy Play: Virtual Instructors for Wearable Augmented Reality during Hands-On Learning and Play

Abstract

This workshop will expose participants to how autonomous virtual instructors (VI) can be delivered through wearable augmented reality (AR) to provide a personalized and just-in-time instructional intervention during psychomotor learning and play. Distributing VIs for teaching or improving psychomotor skills through wearable AR, provides individual learners with a continually available personal tutor while, at the same time, keeping their hands free to practice a range of skills.These psychomotor skills may range from children learning basic electronics through robot assembly to learning the proper steps as a master plumber by following a VIs instructions. This workshop will address various pedagogical rules that a VI must follow in order to deliver the best instruction and how the multi-modal instructional intervention of a VI enabled wearable AR system can improve task learning and proficiency during learning and play.