Developing Education Support System using Interactive Floor Interface

Recently, ICT equipment has been introduced to classrooms in Japan. Moreover, effectiveness of active learning that engages students as active participants in their learning has been discussed. In order to merge the usefulness of ICT and the effectiveness of active learning, we developed interactive floor interface (IFI) that enables users to see teaching materials displayed on a floor and to control it with their gestures. We also developed an interactive teaching material of wave interference designed for IFI. To confirm the effectiveness of IFI, we gave examinations before and after learning to two groups each of which learns wave interference by using either a usual textbook or IFI. As a result, it was found that average scores of examinations have significantly increased in both groups. Although an average increase of scores for IFI was higher than that of usual textbook, we could not show its significant difference. It is important to improve teaching materials for IFI by giving further interactivity, user-friendliness, and so on.