ARminoGame: Um jogo colaborativo baseado em realidade aumentada

Abstract

Interactivity and collaboration are pedagogical tools aimed at promoting more effective student learning, making learning engaging, fostering greater interest in partici pating in activities, and requiring responsibility in decision-making. Educational games are interactive tools, and the collaborative element can be present to harness the benefits that interactivity and collaboration can provide to students. The current work involves the development of a collaborative educational game called ARminoGame, which combi nes physical and virtual components to support in-person educational activities, with the goal of using interactive and collaborative elements to reinforce the content presented in the classroom. The development was carried out within the Unity 3D game engine, in conjunction with the Fish-Net communication module and the Vuforia Augmented Rea lity library. The game’s development met the proposed requirements, using Fish-Net to enable communication between mobile devices on a local network and Vuforia for pattern recognition. A prototype was created, including a set of cards, a game board, and an Android app. This prototype was tested by a group of 4 biochemistry students to verify the game’s functionality in a controlled environment. After testing, it was determined which elements worked, which did not, and what improvements are needed. It was noted that the development of a functionality questionnaire and further testing is necessary.