Developing and Usability Testing of an Augmented Reality Tool for Online Engineering Education

• Published in: IEEE transactions on learning technologies Vol. 18; pp. 13 - 24
• Main Authors: Shrestha, Saurav, Shan, Yongwei, Emerson, Robert, Hosseini, Zahrasadat
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2025
• Subjects: Augmented reality; Augmented reality (AR); Collaboration; Education; Engineering education; Games; immersive AR; online learning; Real-time systems; Testing; Three-dimensional displays; Usability; Visualization

This article introduces the development process of social presence-enabled augmented reality (SPEAR) tool, an innovative augmented reality (AR) based learning application tailored for online engineering education. SPEAR focuses on a learning module of structural beam-bending, empowering users to sea...