Diretrizes para as atividades em realidade aumentada: a descoberta das cores e das formas geométricas

Abstract

Augmented Reality provides innovative interaction techniques. When united with learning, it allows a playfulness that favors and stimulates the attention and interest of children. Human-computer interaction is the general theory that attenuates the human being as the center of the communication process. In this context, this paper presents guidelines for activities performed using Augmented Reality for desktop computers, camera and markers, considering the target audience, the children. The discovery of colors and geometric shapes is based on the proposal of software, through a learning environment, which demonstrates playfulness and provides children with cognitive experiences. Therefore, the concepts of ergonomics, usability and design were applied to guide this research in relation to the well-being and comfort of the target public, who are children of three to six years old. As a result, fifteen guidelines, which integrate important aspects for accomplishing the interaction in a satisfactory way, were obtained, and the application of software, with an interface oriented to the ludic activity, which tests, illustrates and emphasizes the orientations found. The data collection performed through the tests with the proposed ideal environment, and the questionnaires applied to the target public, prove that the guidelines are effective for activities in Augmented Reality.