Team name: 11Chips
Team members: Riccardo Carretta, Francesco Coppola, Giulia Paludo, Teresa Rizzi and Martina Vincoli
Host: University of Trento, Trento, Italy
Challenge: FabLab Unitrento and Apelab: Combining innovative methods of learning with a maker approach

Hachi is a smartphone and tablet application which uses Augmented Reality (AR) to visualise and manipulate abstract concepts.
 

Targeted at elementary students, the solution gives the opportunity of pupils to use special physical cards (paper, plastic or word) with QR codes, which are scanned by Hachi app and show a visual interaction between the cards’ elements. The solution can be adapted to different contexts, but its development starts with natural sciences. For example, after connecting a card in yellow colour with one in blue, the app will visualise the creation of green colour as an interaction between the two original colours.

Hachi offers an opportunity to strengthen educational technology, enhancing creating and critical thinking related to active, cooperative and explorative learning.
 

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