EDUCO: An Augmented Reality Application to Enrich Learning Experience of Students for History and Civics Subjects

Abstract

Project Educo focuses on the upliftment of the subject History & Civics of class 10th. The subject is considered as one of the most boring subjects due to its theoretical approach and lack of interactivity. Through immersive technologies like AR and VR, the approach to the subject, as well as the number of students preferring to take the subject for further education, is supposed to increase at an exponential rate. In this project, the research was conducted in the preliminary phase followed by literature reviews, market analysis and user surveys (N=26). The data was analysed using card sorting technique. In the ideation phase, User Interface had two directions to continue the project of which we choose the most affordable and versatile one. With the direction confirmed, explorations were done for the UI after Information Architecture and Wireframing. The prototype was made in Adobe XD followed by Unity for the AR and VR content. Heuristic analysis was conducted to evaluate and improve the experience as well as the visual part.