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By its nature, the learning of certain complex contents has always been a focus of attention and a challenge in the study of mathematics. This fact acquires greater importance if it is about the learning of children, because the psycho-cognitive skills of this type of user, especially when they attend the first levels of Basic General Education are not yet mature. As a result, children are unable to assimilate correctly and easily certain content of an abstract nature during the early stages of mathematics learning. This study presents the results of the application of a computer system called “Kinect based Augmented Reality Math Learning System - KARMLS”, whose design and development uses the Augmented Reality technology and the motion sensor implemented in MS-Kinect camera. The developed application covers elementary math topics corresponding to the Basic General Education curriculum of the Republic of Ecuador. The study used an experimental quantitative approach, involving 29 third-grade children (13 girls and 16 boys), who attend to 2 Basic General Education schools in Riobamba city, Ecuador. The results that allowed to evaluate the prototype proposed in the study were obtained by means of a pretest and a posttest, which were contrasted with the students’ t-test for paired samples. Through the analysis of data obtained and the discussion, it is concluded that the applied computer system had a positive effect for the learning when used as a supplementary tool in the classroom and that it was more effective in children who previously had low performance than with those of high performance. Also, the children were motivated and with positive attitudes regarding the use of the analyzed software.
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International Education Studies; Vol. 12, No. 9; 2019
ISSN 1913-9020 E-ISSN 1913-9039
Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education
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Augmented Reality and MS-Kinect in the Learning of Basic
Mathematics: KARMLS Case
Raúl Lozada-Yánez1,2, Nora La-Serna-Palomino1 & Fernando Molina-Granja3
1 Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Faculty of Systems and Information Engineering, Ecuador
2 Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo, Faculty of Informatics and Electronics, Riobamba, Ecuador
3 Universidad Nacional de Chimborazo, Faculty of Engineering, Riobamba, Ecuador
Correspondence: Fernando Molina-Granja, Universidad Nacional de Chimborazo, Faculty of Engineering,
Riobamba, Ecuador.
Received: May 8, 2019 Accepted: June 19, 2019 Online Published: August 29, 2019
doi:10.5539/ies.v12n9p54 URL: https://doi.org/10.5539/ies.v12n9p54
Abstract
By its nature, the learning of certain complex contents has always been a focus of attention and a challenge in the
study of mathematics. This fact acquires greater importance if it is about the learning of children, because the
psycho-cognitive skills of this type of user, especially when they attend the first levels of Basic General Education
are not yet mature. As a result, children are unable to assimilate correctly and easily certain content of an abstract
nature during the early stages of mathematics learning. This study presents the results of the application of a
computer system called “Kinect based Augmented Reality Math Learning System - KARMLS”, whose design and
development uses the Augmented Reality technology and the motion sensor implemented in MS-Kinect camera.
The developed application covers elementary math topics corresponding to the Basic General Education
curriculum of the Republic of Ecuador. The study used an experimental quantitative approach, involving 29
third-grade children (13 girls and 16 boys), who attend to 2 Basic General Education schools in Riobamba city,
Ecuador. The results that allowed to evaluate the prototype proposed in the study were obtained by means of a
pretest and a posttest, which were contrasted with the students’ t-test for paired samples. Through the analysis of
data obtained and the discussion, it is concluded that the applied computer system had a positive effect for the
learning when used as a supplementary tool in the classroom and that it was more effective in children who
previously had low performance than with those of high performance. Also, the children were motivated and with
positive attitudes regarding the use of the analyzed software.
Keywords: basic education, ms-kinect, human computer interaction, mathematics
1. Introduction
Mathematical experiences are intrinsic to our daily life, however, the understanding of abstract contents has always
been a topic of interest and a challenge in the learning of this subject at all levels of academic formation, this
situation becomes more relevant if it deals with children of school age since, the abstractions that they must carry
out in order to make certain contents theirs are complicated tasks that hinder their comprehension. This issue is
also important when educating with didactic digital resources, since most educational software developers do not
consider the particular design requirements that this type of users need due to the changes that, due to their age,
occur in his psycho-cognitive abilities (Gossen, Nitsche, & Nürnberger, 2013; Lozada, Rivera, & Molina, 2018).
As a result of the above, children are not able to assimilate certain contents correctly and easily during the first
stages of mathematics learning.
Videogames companies develop input computing devices based on motion sensors. This type of devices allows
users to operate and interact with videogames through their gestures and body movements, whether these
movements of their hands, arms, legs or other parts of their body, this makes the interaction of these users with the
software be done more naturally. The devices of this type that are more frequently used are Wii from Nintendo
(Lee, 2008), MS-Kinect from Microsoft, and Sony’s PS Move. Additionally, it is urgent to carry out training
courses for professors on the applied behavior analysis strategies and their applications (Khaleel, 2019).
This type of technology, as well as the possibility of having at hand a database of historical information on the
application of this type of technology for future considerations and research (Molina-Granja & Rodríguez-Rafael,
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2017b), has aroused the interest of many researchers and developers who study the possible uses of said
technology with a computer. Currently, there are software tools that make it possible to use this type of device with
desktop applications. In this context, several works have been developed that study the applications of these
devices in various areas of human endeavor.
Co-teaching enables a large range of teaching practices to be employed including a partnership between the
student-teacher and the teacher in all the processes that occur in the classroom, share the planning of time and
tasks, planning feedback conversations, reflective thinking and evaluation of the teaching. Thus, the contribution
of co-teaching is significant for all those involved, enabling the use of a wide range of teaching practices,
something that without co-teaching would be difficult to perform. (Neifeald & Nissim, 2019).
The use of motion sensors as alternatives to common peripherals (keyboard and mouse) and their combination
with Augmented Reality (AR) technology, is presented as a new option for the teaching-learning of subjects that,
like mathematics, have been seen limited mainly to the presentation of their contents (intrinsically abstract and
complex) through static didactic resources printed in textbooks, these resources require the use of a high extrinsic
cognitive load (Sweller, 2010; Sweller, Van Merrienboer, & Pass, 1998) from the students, besides being boring for
the users, more if it is about children. The proposal presented in this paper aims to improve the usability of
traditional didactic digital resources (usually slides), by reducing the cognitive load necessary to learn certain
curricular contents corresponding to the elementary mathematics subject through the use of the natural user
interface proposed by the computer system called “Kinect based Augmented Reality Math Learning System”,
hereinafter referred to as KARMLS.
When a student has access to educational content presented by a computer, he is forced to use the type of
interaction with the computer equipment (usually provided with a keyboard and a mouse), without forgetting that
he must also become familiar with interactions such as the management of windows, access to menus, use of
console commands, use of specific interfaces of each computer application, and others that may vary depending on
the operating system and the software used. Therefore, while students learn how to perform all these interactions,
there is an extra cost of learning that uses user memory in these tasks whose learning is not the main objective of
the digital resources used (Sweller, 2010), this strange load is known as extrinsic cognitive load.
One of the most known and important cognitive characteristics of the human being is its limited processing
capacity Sweller (1994), who also points out that the didactic resources with which a student interacts must be
designed taking into consideration the characteristics of the extrinsic cognitive load that these resources generate
in their target audience, this evidence suggests that the interactivity between the human being and the elements
(digital or not) with which the information that is desired is assimilated by a student, can be an important aspect in
the process of designing teaching resources. In this sense, it is necessary to reduce the extrinsic cognitive load, that
is to say “the unnecessary cognitive load that saturates, contaminates and affects the working memory (Lotero,
2012)” to increase the relevant load space in the working memory (Chong, 2005; Shaffer, Doube, & Touvinen,
2003).
In an effort to achieve the above, this paper presents KARMLS, a learning system whose main strategy is to
minimize the extrinsic cognitive load generated by the use of digital teaching resources based on traditional
interactions (Keyboard and mouse), through the incorporation of a gestural interface (using the movement sensor
of MS-Kinect) that takes advantage of the cognitive abilities of the children participating in the study, as well as the
knowledge that they have acquired throughout their lives when interacting with the physical world (Lozada et al.,
2018 ), KARMLS combines this interaction mode with Augmented Reality (AR) technology, which allows digital
objects to be incorporated into a real environment, where that can interact and be manipulated by the user, covering
certain contents of elementary mathematics, aimed at children who attend primary school, also examining their
effect on the cognitive performance of students, comparing their effects on high-performance students and low
performance and investigating the attitudes of children towards software.
2. Literature Review
Although mathematics is the language of the universe (Khan, Trujano, Choudhury, & Maes, 2018), human beings
commonly experience a “mathematical anxiety” largely attributable to the traditional form (presenting static and
boring content in textbooks) in that this subject is taught and by the use of abstract symbols that in principle have
no meaning for students, as a set of rules that must be memorized instead of understood and in a vertical education
system, facts that, in certain cases, convert the learning mathematics in a punishment, this generates a lack of
interest in learning this important subject, disinterest that according to Ellis, Fosdick, & Rasmussen (2016), leads
to a high dropout rate in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
In Perkins (1999), a discussion about constructivist learning was performed; results of this study indicate that a
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great part of the students obtains their knowledge through observation. Seymour Papert started from the bases of
constructivist learning to propose his theory of constructionist learning, in this approach, students build their own
knowledge while designing, building and executing projects. Its language of programming of logos (Papert, 1999),
based on its approach, allowed the learning of the geometry of constructionist forms.
Computer simulations are popular in the educational field, mainly in the subjects in which contents are presented
that are difficult to understand due to the lack of visualization of said contents in real life, in this sense and thinking
that the target audience of this study are children of school age, the presentation of a learning system that is shown
as a computer game can improve the learning of mathematics (Cordova & Lepper, 1996), even more if this fact is
added the benefits that according to Lozada et al. (2018), has the development of didactic digital resources
developed with AR and a gestural interface, and the foundations of the constructivist approach, KARMLS is
presented as a learning system that allows children of Basic General Education to learn in a playful way within an
environment that combines virtual elements with a real-world vision (AR).
Many developments have presented applications based on AR for learning with real environments, in Bujak, Radu,
Catrambone, Macintyre, Zheng, and Golubski (2013) analyze several factors that may affect the educational
effectiveness of AR-based interventions for mathematics classrooms and offer theoretical foundations to
understand the benefits and limitations of AR-based learning experiences, these researchers present a framework
of work to understand the learning of the AR from three perspectives: a) physical “physical manipulation allows
natural interactions, thus promoting the creation of embodied representations for educational concepts”, b)
cognitive “space-time alignment of information through experiences of AR can help the student’s symbolic
understanding by scaffolding the progress of learning “ and, c) contextual “AR technology creates possibilities for
collaborative learning around virtual content and non-traditional environments, which ultimately facilitates
personally significant experiences”. Results of this work indicate that, although AR technology shows great
potential to expand the resources used to educate, there is still research to be done.
Another interesting case is Construct3D (Kaufmann, 2002), work that presents a prototype based on Augmented
Reality for Mathematics and Geometry that can be used collaboratively or not, to improve spatial skills and
experimentation through geometric constructions for secondary and university level, this implementation employs
a stereoscopic screen on the user’s head (Head Mounted Display, HMD) and a Personal Interaction Panel (PIP) to
simplify user interaction with the 3D models presented. The implementation of this prototype, according to its
developers, allowed to demonstrate that even though its prototype has some similarity with Computer Assisted
Design (CAD) software, in turn, it is presented as a simple construction tool that allows to comprehensively cover
the needs of basic Geometry educators, who do not need the wide variety of specific and complex features of CAD
software, which are very powerful tools, but with a long and gradual learning curve that generates high extrinsic
cognitive load while learning to use them, a fact that is overcome with the use of Construct3D.
2.1 MS-Kinect and Its Applications
MS-Kinect from Microsoft, is an electronic device that allows the capture of the movement of the complete body
of an user and the recognition of their gestures through the RGB camera and infrared depth sensors that it
incorporates MS-Kinect allows users to control a console or a PC application without any device that limits their
movements, unbinding in this mode the user and the hardware. As seen in Figure 1, the sensors incorporated in this
device allow MS-Kinect V2 (or PC version) to recognize 25 anatomical landmarks of a subject.
In general, up to six users can be recognized by this device (Kitsunezaki, Adachi, Masuda, & Mizusawa, 2013).
The first version of the device generated a cloud of color points and detected 20 anatomical landmarks, as shown in
Figure 2, recognizing a maximum of two subjects (Khoshelham & Elberink, 2012). The RGB camera of the device
has a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels and with 512x424 pixels in its infrared (IR) camera, characteristics that allow
MS-Kinect to capture images in a field of 70 degrees horizontally and 60 degrees vertically, with a maximum
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type of system and/or prototype, this study concluded that the possible benefits of this type of technology are
promising and that its use could help in the improvement of teaching, points out that its success or failure in the use
of this device for educational purposes will depend to a large extent on the availability of applications that can be
used with the device.
According to Hsu (2011), the benefits of using MS-Kinect are those mentioned below:
Teachers can interact with the contents displayed on the screen through gestures, movements, and voice
instead of the keyboard and the mouse.
The teacher can share the control of the screen with the students, thanks to MS-Kinect allowing interaction
with more than one user. This may allow activities such as group work or one-on-one interaction between
teacher and student.
MS-Kinect can serve as a support for the teaching of physical activities, such as dance or martial arts.
MS-Kinect can encourage the participation of students in the class. Since this sensor is a stimulating tool,
interesting applications can be created to capture the attention of students.
In this work, the authors also present the possible inconveniences that could arise with the use of this interaction
device in the classroom, so it is mentioned that:
MS-Kinect requires an empty space between the user and the device (at least 0.8m), in addition to the space
that the user needs to move and interact with the screen. This amount of space may not be available in the
classroom.
There are not many applications with MS-Kinect available that can be used by teachers in class, so teachers
do not have many alternatives if they want to bring the MS-Kinect sensor to their classes.
As already mentioned, MS-Kinect allows human-computer interaction through the movements and gestures of the
extremities (for example) of the human being, this type of interaction may be appropriate for the development of
hand-eye coordination in children of preschool. As mentioned in Ortega & Obispo (2007), it is a kind of
coordination, also called manual coordination; it is defined as “the ability of an individual to simultaneously use
their hands and eyes in order to perform a task or activity”. The development of this skill is important for infants
since it will depend on the ease with which they acquire reading and writing skills.
The system developed by this study consists of three games aimed at children who attend two Basic Education
Units in Riobamba, Ecuador. The tool called KARMLS, uses MS-Kinect as the system’s input device, this device
allows children to interact with the didactic objects presented by movements that they make with their hands, in
this way they exercise the manual vision (hand-eye) coordination. The tool was tested through a field test, which is,
in a classroom suitable for that purpose, making the children try individually, but working in pairs with two roles,
being at one time an observer of the activities of their partner and in another moment who interacts with the
KARMLS tool.
The mobile devices’ proliferation and their massive use by children of all ages raise new issues from the families
and educators in the world, there are a new lot of questions born in this sense with regard to their quality,
appropriateness, and adaptation for these users. As mentioned in Lozada et al. (2018), many of these problems
occur because most software is developed for a target audience different from that of children, so the techniques
and methodologies for software design (educational or not), do not consider the special characteristics and specific
that children present in each of the stages of their motor, cognitive, emotional and affective development. This
study aims to verify the effect of the use of a computer application based on the potential of the Augmented Reality
technology and the natural user interaction provided by MS-Kinect, in the performance of a group of children of
the third grade of EGB, the city of Riobamba, Ecuador. It is expected that the motivation (emotional and affective
stimulation) provided by the Augmented Reality and the new way of interaction (motor, cognitive stimulation)
provided by MS-Kinect will improve the qualifications obtained by the children participating in the study after
KARMLS use.
3. Methodology
The appropriate choice of a study design makes it possible to connect the conceptual stages of the research process,
such as the problem statement, the development of the theoretical perspective, and the hypothesis with the
subsequent phases, in which character is more operative (Sampieri, Fernández, & Baptista, 2014). In this sense,
this study used a prospective, longitudinal, analytic and experimental quantitative approach with intervention,
involving 29 third-grade children (13 girls and 16 boys), who attend to 2 Basic General Education schools in
Riobamba city, Ecuador, the study aim is to evaluate the proposed prototype by means of a pretest and a posttest,
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which were contrasted with the students’ t-test for paired samples. To establish the sample, a non-probabilistic
discretionary sampling was used because it was necessary to seek the consent of the educational units that would
participate so that the children who attend there can be part of the study.
3.1 The Experiment, Justification, and Preparation
The main objective of the study is to analyze the effect of digital didactic resources based on Augmented Reality as
supplementary material in a basic mathematics course, specifically for content learning: a) “Sort” or “Ordenar”, an
activity that tries to order a certain number of elements from the largest to the smallest or vice-versa, b) “Match”or
“Parear”, where the student must associate several sets with the number of elements that each set contains and c)
“Add” or “Sumar”, an activity in which two cardinal numbers must be added to get the answer shown. Before the
development of the KARMLS tool, an interview was held with the mathematics teachers, who based on their
teaching experience, knew that their students were not very motivated and did not fully understand the contents
presented in these specific topics. After that interview, the teachers expressed interest in reviewing these contents
again with the help of a tool that uses AR technology to awaken and stimulate the interest of their students and
improve the learning of the contents.
The pretest data will be provided by the teachers based on the learning results obtained by their students when
traditional classroom resources were used (textbook and static slides). On the other hand, the posttest scores were
obtained from the learning results of the same group of students after the use of KARMLS, which was used as
support for teaching the contents specified above. It should be mentioned that none of the resources presented to
the students contained the exact items of the evaluation that was made after the use of the proposed prototype, this
implies that to select their answers, each student had to reach their own conclusions from the exploration, the
exercise and the deduction, fundamentals of learning by inquiry, posture in which the design of the class was
based. To fulfill the objectives of the study, it was necessary to adapt a classroom to assemble the infrastructure that
allows properly using the KARMLS tool. The experiment design considered the execution of 4 phases, as shown in
Tab l e 1 .
Table 1. Executed experimental design
Experiment Phase Methods
Pretest Before KARMLS use, each student individually had to complete a written test that measured their learning outcomes
with respect to the topics “Ordenar”, “Parear” and “Sumar”.
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The study participant children were instructed again in the classroom by their teacher in the subjects on which they
would practice with the KARMLS tool. After this, without performing the exercise proposed in the textbook of the
subject, were gathered in a random manner in 13 groups of 2 children (and a group of three children) to form work
teams, each group was asked to use the KARMLS tool, with changing roles for 10 minutes for each child, following the
instructions provided by the teacher, who gave brief indications (no more than 5 minutes) and in a general way on how
to interact with MS-Kinect to control the software. To avoid biases, these instructions were set out in a guide that was
respected by the teacher, the group of researchers was also present, who, like the teacher, were mere spectators at the
time of the execution of the experiment, indicating the children only when change role (when he was a spectator and
when he used KARMLS).
Posttest Each student (individually) completed a written test with the same difficulty and on the same topics as the Pretest.
Analysis of results
We proceeded to statistically contrast the results collected in the pretest and posttest to verify if there is an improvement
or not in the performance of children after using KARMLS and if this difference is statistically significant. Likewise, the
results obtained by the students with the lowest performance (less than 14 points, on a scale in which the maximum
score, that is, 32 equals 20 points) were compared with those with the best performance (14 or more) before practice
with the didactic tool proposed in this study.
Made by the authors.
3.2 Used Instruments
In research, for many experimental designs, the pretest-posttest design is the preferred method to compare
participant’s groups and measure the degree of change occurring as a result of treatments or interventions. For this
study case, the researchers select this experimental design because they want to monitor the effect of KARMLS
system (which includes AR Technology and the natural user interaction provided by MS-Kinect) upon a group of
children in scholar age. For the tests’ validation, the adopted criteria were the experts’ analysis, in this form, 5
expert teachers in mathematics with a university degree reviewed the pretest and posttest items, this phase aimed to
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evaluate the clarity and relevance of each of the 32 items included in the pretest and the posttest. For the phase of
item analysis and consistency analysis, an adjusted pilot test was applied based on the adjustments of the expert
judges. This pilot test was applied to 30 students who were in the 5th grade of Basic General Education, 12 girls
and 18 boys. The tests’ items validation was carried out through the following phases:
a) Construction phase: Despite initiating the research with a test already constructed and reviewed by a group of
teachers in the area of mathematics of one of the participating schools, the process was carried out of
validation by judges and item analysis.
b) Judges’ validation: The 32 original items in the test were organized in a validation booklet, in order to
determine the relevance and clarity of the items by means of the Reason of Content Validity (CVR) of each
one of the items.
c) Initial adjustments: Based on the level of agreement of the judges and their recommendations, the items with
non-permissible values of CVR, were modified according to the criteria of Lawshe (1975), (cited by Cohen,
2001).
d) Pilot test: As already mentioned, the test was applied to 30 students of fifth grade EGB previously divided
into 2 groups corresponding to the two parallels of the level, the application conditions were equalized in
times (80 minutes) and spaces (classroom).
e) Reliability analysis: with the obtained data in the pilot test and since it was not possible to carry out a method
of double application, it was decided to perform an analysis of internal consistency implementing the method
of split-half.
The results of these tests corroborated the clarity and relevance of each of the 32 items included in the pretest and
the posttest.
Before the execution of the experiment, the teachers applied the previous test (pretest) with the whole class; After
this, the researchers divided the class randomly into 13 groups of 2 and a group of 3 students who, as already
mentioned, used the tool proposed in this study to complete the proposed learning tasks for the “Ordenar”,
“Parear” and “Sumar” topics, under the research team supervision. After learning with KARMLS, a subsequent
test (posttest) was carried out, using a test with the same complexity and evaluating the same contents as in the
pretest. The main objective of these tests was to examine the understanding and abstraction of knowledge that
allows them to perform the tasks exercised with the use of the AR-based tool proposed by this study.
3.3 Development of the Prototype
KARMLS system is an Augmented Reality software with support for MS-Kinect, which makes the use of AR
markers as a method of interaction dispensable. The software developed contains three specific learning activities:
“Ordenar”, “Parear” and “Sumar” and an introductory activity aimed at indicating to the participating children the
way in which MS-Kinect allows them to interact with the software. Children’s Gestures were used as a way of
human-computer interaction, in this sense, according to each activity the child can interact with virtual objects by
the movement of their hands.
1) Design considerations
A constructivist design model centered on the student and a learning approach based on inquiry was used, under
which the children were gathered in 13 pairs and a trio to form groups of work, they built their own knowledge,
they used gestures of their hands to manipulate the virtual objects of each activity proposed in KARMLS, this
interaction was carried out as if they were doing it with objects from the real world, thus taking advantage of their
previous knowledge and diminishing the extrinsic cognitive load through the use of augmented reality (Wei, Guo,
& Weng, 2018), a fact that is further improved by using the natural user interface provided by MS-Kinect instead
of the traditional devices used by desktop computers, this devices disappear from the user’s view with the use of
the interaction proposed by KARMLS. When considering the prototype’s design, it was decided to implement the
KARMLS games with simple functionalities that contemplate the topics of the area of mathematics reported as not
fully assimilated by the children. After analyzing the aforementioned information, it was decided to implement the
following educational activities:
“Sumar”. In this activity the child can visualize the sum components, being able to alter the result if he adds
or eliminates elements of the addends, by means of a drag and drop action supported by the motion sensor.
“Ordenar”. In this activity, the child arranges objects of different sizes with the criterion of minor to major or
vice versa by dragging them and placing them in the corresponding box.
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Table 3. Qualifications obtained in pretest/posttest
Qualifications (Over 32 points)
Subject N° Before
KARMLS
After
KARMLS Subject N° Before
KARMLS
After
KARMLS
1 18 20 16 25 31
2 18 20 17 26 26
3 19 22 18 26 29
4 19 22 19 27 26
5 20 23 20 27 30
6 20 23 21 28 28
7 21 24 22 28 30
8 21 24 23 29 28
9 22 24 24 29 29
10 22 24 25 30 28
11 23 25 26 30 29
12 23 25 27 31 28
13 24 26 28 31 31
14 24 32 29 32 29
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Before
KARMLS
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KARMLS Difference
Mean 24.7586207 26.27586207 1.5172
Variance 18.1896552 10.99261084 7.197
Observations 29 29
Pearson correlation coefficient 0.82572505
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children is carried out before and after using KARMLS as a tool to practice the knowledge referring to Sort, Match
and Add. To do this, the Excel Realstats complement is used to perform the Shapiro Wilk normality test, the results
of this test are shown in Table 4:
Table 4. Shapiro Wilk normality test results
Before KARMLS (Sample A) After KARMLS (Sample B)
n = 29
Average = 24.7586
Standard deviation = 4.2649
W = 0.9542
Value of the SW table for 0.95% (p = 0.05) = 0.9259 -> HO accepted
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data obtained in the pretest are not normal.
n = 29
Average = 26.2758
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Value of the SW table for 0.95% (p = 0.05) = 0.9259 -> HO accepted
Conclusion: There is no statistical evidence that indicates that the data
obtained in the posttest are not normal.
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After having checked the normality of the samples, it was determined that the probability distribution that would
be used for the study is the students’ t-test for related samples, this test allows to determine if there is a statistically
significant difference between the qualifications averages obtained by the children before and after using
KARMLS. The results of the students’ t-test are shown in Table 5.
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Table 5. Results of students’ t-test for the related samples
SUMMARY Mean Alpha 0.05
Groups Count Std Dev t
Before 29 24.75862069 4.2649
After 29 26.27586207 3.3155
Diff. 29 -1.51724137 2.4145 -3.3839
T-Test p-value t-crit Lower upper Sig
Two tails 0.0021291 2.048407142 -2.436 -0.5987958 Yes
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that the difference between the averages obtained before (24.76) and after (26.28) of the use of KARMLS is
statistically significant and that the observed improvement is it must to the use of the computer system developed
in the present study and that is not a random result.
Next, we present the analysis that allows to compare the level (measured in percentage) of improvement of the
group of children considered as poor performers (they obtained less than 14 points in the pretest) with the level of
improvement of the group of children of high performance (obtained 14 or more points in the pretest). Table 6
shows the scores obtained by children before and after using KARMLS, separate into two groups (low and high
performance). These qualifications are presented on a scale in which the maximum score, that is 32, equals 20
points.
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Table 6. Separated children in high and low-performance groups
Low-Performance Children Qualifications
Before After
11.25 12.5
11.25 12.5
11.875 13.75
11.875 13.75
12.5 14.375
12.5 14.375
13.125 15
13.125 15
13.75 15
13.75 15
High-Performance Children Qualifications
Before After
14.375 15.625
14.375 15.625
15 16.25
15 20
15.625 16.25
15.625 19.375
16.25 16.25
16.25 18.125
16.875 16.25
16.875 18.75
17.5 17.5
17.5 18.75
18.125 17.5
18.125 18.125
18.75 17.5
18.75 18.125
19.375 17.5
19.375 19.375
20 18.125
Made by the authors.
The average obtained by children in the low-performance group is 12.5 in the pretest and 14.125 in the posttest,
then it is determined that there is an increase of 1.63 points equivalent to 13% in the average of their grades after
using KARMLS with respect to the grades obtained in the pretest. As for the high-performance group, it is
observed that the average of their qualifications is 17.04 for the pretest and 17.63 for the posttest, with an increase
of 0.59 points after using KARMLS, that is, the average of their grades increased 3.47% after using KARMLS. It is
observed that the computer tool produced more significant gains in learning the group of children with low
performance than in the high-performance group.
It was observed that most of the children did not have problems when using the application and did not need help to
perform the interaction with the AR software, this fact shows the little extrinsic cognitive load that this form of
interaction generates, this allowed the children have a better understanding about each game’s objective. However,
it was also observed that a small number of children could not understand at first glance the movements that
corresponded to the gestures that allow controlling the activities. In these cases, it was necessary to assist the child
to complete the proposed activity, which started again when this difficulty was detected. This facts, indicate that
the experience was positive and that the prototype implemented fulfills with the proposed objectives.
5. Conclusions
The analysis of obtained data in the experiment made it possible to determine that there is a statistically significant
improvement between the scores obtained by the children participating in the study in the test that measures their
performance after using KARMLS in comparison with their grades obtained before using the proposed system.
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The analysis made it possible to corroborate that there was a greater improvement in the children with low
performance in comparison with the children of the high-performance group, it has been considered that the
possible reasons for this finding can be: a) many of the scores obtained by the children of the group of high
performance are very high, there is even a case in which the maximum possible score was obtained, this makes the
space for improving the performance of these children is quite limited and b) the test was quite basic, so much that
children of the high-performance group dominated these topics and it was very easy for them to achieve high
scores before and after using KARMLS.
New research should address the usefulness of augmented reality from a psychological perspective since it is
necessary to have a theory to describe and predict the learning outcomes in the space where the real and the virtual
combine in order to offer beneficial educational experiences, for To achieve this goal, we must first understand the
underlying technological and psychological factors on which Augmented Reality is beneficial (or not) in an
educational experience, this understanding will allow both curricular designers and teachers and computer
professionals to make use of the specific benefits and potentialities of a didactic digital resource based on AR.
During the execution of the present study it was possible to verify what is stated in Hsu (2011), work that affirms
that an application based on this type of technology has a high motivational level in students, especially preschool.
MS-Kinect is an interactive device that presents several possibilities in terms of applications for the educational
field, the present study has used the depth map, one of the forms of interaction that MS-Kinect supports, this fact
makes it possible to improve in certain characteristics As it is the recognition and monitoring of gestures, it is a
pending task the analysis of other interaction options that this device can offer.
There is still a gap in terms of interaction standards with technologies without controls. At present, this type of
interaction is used mostly in the field of videogames, with little guidance and/or conventions to guide the
programmer in the design of this type of interaction.
It highlights the usability of applications based on technologies without controls similar to MS-Kinect, and its
support in teaching-learning processes, this being a little explored field, since, in the case of new users, it is
essential to analyze the cognitive abilities of these users when taking on the challenge of designing applications in
the educational field. This analysis must be carried out with the purpose of not underestimating or overestimating
the users in terms of their capabilities.
6. Future Jobs
The potential that this type of devices presents for the field of education opens new doors for research and the
development of future applications. The development of new educational games based on MS-Kinect that
contemplates other themes or other forms of interaction can be investigated.
Heuristics should be developed that help in determining the educational game’s usability for children, since they
present differences compared with the users for whom the commercial videogames are designed.
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