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Project Details

Team

  • Amanda Robertson: Project Lead, Flash Developer
  • Ruth Smith: Instructional Designer
  • Ben Huckaby: 3D Modeler
  • David Tredwell: Mobile Developer
  • Rachel Lloyd: Unity3D Developer
  • Kendre McNulty: Unity3D Developer
  • David Drews: Interface Designer, 3D Modeler

Client

  • Shawn Dunning: College of Textiles

Technologies

  • Unity3D
  • Flash
  • Video

Timeline

  • September 2010 to November 2011

MicroExplorer 3D

First developed for TMS 211, Fiber Science, the MicroExplorer 3D allows students to learn about microscopes.

Instructional Challenges

  • Distance Education (DE) students may not have the opportunity to use a microscope directly. However, students should be able to identify the parts of a compound microscope, understand how the microscope works and learn how to use it.

Solutions

An interactive website and mobile application was developed using Unity 3D, a game engine or framework from which 3D environments, games and simulations can be built. The application includes a 3D model of a compound microscope with supporting photographs, video, and textual descriptions of each part. Users can pan and zoom in on various parts and read and listen to descriptions as often as they like.

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