Abstract

The proposed project is to enhance the AR/VR development projects at CUHK by providing the ‘bridge’ or ‘backbone’ for developers to easily add interactive components into their projects.

The ‘backbone’ will be based on our work on uReply. uReply is already a highly functional platform for promoting classroom interactions on its own. It is already proven to be a popular tool among our teachers too. The new backbone will provide openings (API in technical terms) for external projects to integrate uReply functions into their own developments.

In other words, the interactive component will be web-based, dynamic and user-friendly enough for teachers to make changes even after the development. Unlike interactions that are hard-coded and built into the development and thus are virtually impossible to change by the teachers themselves, the backbone concept requires teachers to put ‘action points’ onto the AR/VR environment instead and then link each of these action points to a uReply question/quiz. Changes by the teachers at any stage are easy as what they need to do is to go to the usual uReply Question Bank and change the question/quiz.

The project will have a proactive servicing element such that our programmer will actively liaise and collaborate with various teams at the University to make better interactive VR developments.