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Design, Dress Up, and Learn: Augmented Reality Tshirts for Immersive STEAM Education

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Poster Theme: AI & Emerging Tech in Education

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Session description

Students design and create T-shirts featuring human body systems. An augmented reality app brings the designs to life, showing 3D animations of the heart pumping or food digesting. This project blends graphic design, biology, and technology into an immersive, low-cost learning tool, making anatomy a dynamic visual experience.

Outline

1. Introduction (5 minutes): Show an impressive video of the T-shirt in action and discuss the problem of making biology more attractive and understandable.
2. The project: Concept and design (15 minutes): Explain the creative process, from choosing the body system to graphic design. Sublimation will be discussed as a low-cost technique.
3. Augmented Reality and programming (15 minutes): Brief introduction to how augmented reality works and the basic steps for linking the shirt to a 3D animation.
4. Hands-on activity (15 minutes): Participants will use their devices to scan a sample T-shirt, exploring the human body systems in 3D. Discussion will be encouraged on how to implement this in their own classrooms.
5. Closing and questions (10 minutes): Summary of key points, educational benefits of the project, and a question-and-answer session. Digital resources will be provided so that participants can start their own projects.

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Outcomes

After this session, participants will be able to:
• Understand the basic principles of sublimation T-shirt design and augmented reality application.
• Design, manufacture, and program their own interactive T-shirt with a human body system, using digital tools and sublimation techniques.
• Integrate augmented reality as a teaching tool to improve science education and promote active learning in their classrooms.
• Adapt the project methodology to apply augmented reality to other topics or disciplines.

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Supporting research

https://www.revista.unam.mx/wp-content/uploads/a9_Realidad-aumentada-en-la-ensenanza.pdf
https://www.canva.com/es_mx/aprende/ideas-aprovechar-realidad-aumentada-en-educacion/
https://education.apple.com/story/250014254
https://education.apple.com/resource/250013859
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realidad_aumentada_en_la_educaci%C3%B3n
https://ifssa.edu.ar/ifssavirtual/cms/files/LIBRO%20IFSSA%20Anatomia.y.Fisiologia.Humana.Marieb%209aed.%20(1).pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKvz9DsZSLw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae4MadKPJC0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUpdItCbr24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FyN5_-njAU

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