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ProteinScanAR - An Augmented Reality Web Application for High School Education in Biomolecular Life Sciences

Hienke SminiaSabine C. MuellerAndreas HildebrandtAnna Katharina DehofHans-peter LenhofStefan NickelsBas Kools

subject

Structure (mathematical logic)Spatial relationHTML5Relation (database)business.industryHuman–computer interactionComputer scienceWeb applicationThe InternetAugmented realitybusinessLicense

description

Understanding protein structures is a crucial step in creating molecular insight for researchers as well as students and pupils. The enormous scaling gap between an atomic point of view and objects in daily life hampers developing an intuitive relation between them. Especially for high school students, it can be difficult to understand the spatial relations of a protein structure. Due to lack of direct imaging techniques, molecules can only be explored by studying abstract molecular models. Here, the use of Augmented reality (AR) techniques has proven to strongly improve structural perception. In this work we present ProteinScanAR, an augmented reality framework for biomolecular education that allows connecting virtual and real worlds intuitively, and thus enables focusing on the scientific or educational content. Special attention was taken to guarantee implementational and technical requirements as general and simple as possible to alleviate application in nonexpert computer settings. The ProteinScanAR framework is freely available under the GNU Public License (GPL).

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2012-07-012012 16th International Conference on Information Visualisation
https://doi.org/10.1109/iv.2012.97