Lens application: Mobile application using augmented reality

Abstract

Smartphones and Mobile App are acceptable as learning tool, especially related to history which control the present and build the future; particularly the study of history is the practical application of the Qur'an and the Sunnah. The history subject, specifically on the stories of the prophets contains many lessons and wisdoms give values that are transformed into the child's mind and translated into his/her behavior. In Saudi Arabia elementary schools, history is firstly introduced to fourth grade that contains the stories of the prophets, may not get the strong impact of the story in soul and memory when they only read it from the book with simple pictures of the story places, thus they might not enjoy and get the required values from those precious stories. For the teachers, it is hard and difficult to ensure that students imagined and understood the story in the right way. Hence, in order to facilitate the learning of these topics, the objective of this paper is to develop a mobile application with visual-learning style to help in improving children imagination of the stories with 3D characters\items using augmented reality technology. The methodology involves analysis, design, implementation and testing. The result of this project is an education tool that helps the teachers in their teaching environment and improves the students learning process. Therefore, the result of this project has contributed to the educational for young children in Saudi Arabia; towards the development of knowledge society to achieving Saudi Arabia Vision 2030.