SenseTrix Educational Services, STEDUS

SenseTrix EDUcational Services (STEDUS) is a system where members can get new kind of tools to aid in education. These tools turn learning to experience based, fun, more memorable and informative and thus speed up learning curve and improve the knowledge transfer. It is global system where new teaching methods can easily be adapted from any other school or institute, even another country. The system is suitable to any level of education for every country and for many subjects.

 

fysiikkakuva2 750Example 1: Teacher ahead of class showing example of object on inclined plane. Students see affecting arrows and other extra info on top of real object. As teacher moves the object, arrows and other data change accorddingly in real time.

STEDUS benefits

Imagine being able to really inspire the future generations to learn about the wonders of science. Think about what your classes would be like if you could tap into a knowledge base providing fun and educational experiments adapted to suit your curriculum. Now, ponder the amazement of your students if you could present these experiments in a futuristic manner and let your students really take part. We're not talking about some farfetched dream; we're introducing you to STEDUS.

SenseTrix Educational Services (STEDUS for short) brings a world of science experiments to your classroom utilizing cutting edge technology. Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology combining your physical environment with virtual worlds creating immersive and interactive experiences for the students and trainees. AR based STEDUS has the power to turn passive learning into experience-based learning by giving / visualizing important, mostly non-visual information to experience-based training while experimenting.

As a teacher, you know how hard it can be to compete with all the fun stuff available to the kids or students of today. Between videogames and handheld entertainment devices, it can be hard to cut through the fun and flare with the important stuff. Kids are used to being entertained and amused. Well, who said education can't be entertaining and amusing? STEDUS provides try and fail experiments without endangering your students, making "dull" subjects shine.

As a part of the STEDUS community you, your school and your students benefit from having numerous fun and educational experiments to choose from. You can also request experiments you want to provide for your students. Once tailored for you and your use, the rest of the STEDUS community worldwide, will be able to use this experiment for their classes. It's really a win-win situation.

Able to deliver on multiple platforms like personal computers, tablets and smartphones, the need for investing in expensive, hard to use hardware is completely eliminated. We provide a hassle free high-tech experience for you and your students, guaranteed to bring hours of fun, fascinating experience-based education.

 

Kemia 1 750Example 2: Student is experimenting with a lab flask and test tube, and from her monitor she sees as hologram-like, floating 3D-molecules, what is the content of flask and tube in molecular-level

 

Kemia2 750Example 2: .. and when she is mixing the contents of the flask and tube, she will see in 3D-animation what happens at the same time in molecular level

Do you wish to our systems to be tailored to your courses and educational plans? Please contact us to discuss further

Academic publications about STEDUS

“STEDUS, a new educational platform for Augmented Reality applications”
Héctor Martínez and Seppo Laukkanen
4th Global Conference on Experiential Learning in Virtual Worlds (2014)

 

A New Flexible Augmented Reality Platform for Development of Maintenance and Educational Applications
Héctor Martínez, Seppo Laukkanen and Jouni Mattila
Journal: International Journal of Virtual Worlds and Human Computer Interaction, Volume 2, Issue 1, pages 18-27, 2014.

 

Other publications where STEDUS is referenced

http://jmta.avestia.com/2014/PDF/004.pdf
Drivers and Bottlenecks in the Adoption of Augmented Reality Applications

STEDUS system and licenses

If you purchase a STEDUS license, typically you will get:

  • Ability to order any number of applications for any educational subject for FREE
  • Access to all existing STEDUS applications already made for other institutes holding STEDUS license
    • You can use these at any computer within your institute (site license)
  • Access to discussion forum shared with educators and trainers sharing STEUDS license - for example within physics forum you can then discuss with other physics teachers around the world, who are teaching same subject as you!
  • All related instructions and other material

 

Would you like to have similar applications for each subject within certain course or grade? Such as all the subjects from 2nd year physics book, according to your specific curriculum? Then you can either do it with the license mentioned above, OR you can put up a research project with us, during which those will be created.

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About STEDUS

STEDUS is a product of SenseTrix, a company with strong experience with virtual- and augmented reality. Personnel of SenseTrix have been giving lectures over 14 years and they have also been invited to give expert speeches around the world.
If you are interested in having a expert speech about augmented- or virtual reality too, please contact us for further discussions.

During different development processes, it was seen that many fields lacked visual aid particularly when training or educating people. Also it was seen that when augmented- or virtual reality techniques were used with different fields, the students / trainees gained good learning results and felt learning was fun too. It also gave new possibilities to education that were not possible before. Thus there was a need for system like STEDUS.

About STEDUS

STEDUS is a product of SenseTrix, a company with strong experience from fields of virtual- and augmented reality. Personnel of SenseTrix have been giving lectures over 14 years within academic and scientific insitutions and they have also been invited to give expert speeches around the world.

Short History - the need

During different development processes, it was seen that many fields lacked visual aid particularly when training or educating people. Also it was seen that when augmented- or virtual reality techniques were used with different fields, the students / trainees gained good learning results and felt learning was fun too. It also gave new possibilities to education that were not possible before. Thus there was a need for system like STEDUS.

Concept of STEDUS

To build AR-based educational applications requires expertise of AR. Thus it is difficult for educators to make them, even when there are tools for that. When ordered from a software company, it might become expensive and usually the ordering educator receives application for one specific use only. So due to lack of expertise, time and money it has been difficult to educators to start using AR-based applications for education even there are good results of their usage.

That is where STEDUS comes in: We make tailored AR-applications on demand. We do not charge extra for making such application, as the cost is included in the periodic license fee. Any tailored application we make goes also to pool of applications that can be used by any license owner. Due to our system, we can push the price low enough for institutes to gain access to large and growing number of AR-based educational tools with small investement for money or time. While we bring the technological expertiese, participating educators bring the educational expertise, to guarantee better educational perspective.

Augmented Reality on books

While in STEDUS concept we concentrate to bring augmented reality into many objects, it is not so suitable to bring it to books, mainly due to number of pages in books and number of different books. While augmented reality as technology works nicely with books, the number of markers needed and other possible interaction needs would bring usage difficulties. That said, STEDUS-concept can of course also be used with books too, but with some limitations - mainly to number of markers in one book or some interaction possibilities. If you would have such need, we can discuss it case by case.

For this kind of purpose SenseTrix has developed another system, based on STAR (SenseTrix Augmented Reality) -concept. With this system, you can use markers and thus similar augmented content anywhere you like - books, labels, posters, tables.. not only educational content but all kind of content and needs.

It is in many ways similar to applications offered through STEDUS (as technologically they are very close to same), but yet so different that it is different product, and as such most likely will not be tied as that to STEDUS -services. However in some ways it will become also part of STEDUS, but this is still to be defined later (will clear out during 2013 most likely).

If you would like to include augmented reality to your educational books - existing or new ones in larger extent (more than few pages for content), please contact us to find out possibilities.

 

Augmented Reality on books

While in STEDUS concept we concentrate to bring augmented reality into many objects, it is not so suitable to bring it to books, mainly due to number of pages in books and number of different books. While augmented reality as technology works nicely with books, the number of markers needed and other possible interaction needs would bring usage difficulties. That said, STEDUS-concept can of course also be used with books too, but with some limitations - mainly to number of markers in one book or some interaction possibilities. If you would have such need, we can discuss it case by case.

For this kind of purpose SenseTrix has developed another system, based on STAR (SenseTrix Augmented Reality) -concept. With this system, you can use markers and thus similar augmented content anywhere you like - books, labels, posters, tables.. not only educational content but all kind of content and needs.

It is in many ways similar to applications offered through STEDUS (as technologically they are very close to same), but yet so different that it is different product, and as such most likely will not be tied as that to STEDUS -services. However in some ways it will become also part of STEDUS, but this is still to be defined later (will clear out during 2013 most likely).

If you would like to include augmented reality to your educational books - existing or new ones in larger extent (more than few pages for content), please contact us to find out possibilities.

 

Visualize

  • Visualize your educational subject
  • Turn training to experience based training
  • Make learning fun and memorable!
  • Show nonvisible issues
  • Simulate

On the right you can see few images from testing some of the educational applications.


Some of them were used to teach mathematics to visitors of Heureka, science center at Vantaa, Finland. As a result, many children, even the ones under 10 years, learnt to calculate prime numbers. Some smaller learnt multiplying and youngest ones the simple additions - all before they were even been thought to them in school - or before they even had started school.

"At the Night of Mathematics in December 2012 at Heureka, the Finnish Science Centre, Mr. Seppo Laukkanen from SenseTrix organized a workshop using their pilot applications. This pilot was designed especially for the Night of Mathematics and it gave children of all ages the possibility, for example, to do sums and practice with prime numbers. We had some 2000 visitors at the event, and the feedback on SenseTrix’s workshop was very positive. Children had fun and said they learned a lot. Many came back several times. In science centre terms, the workshop had both drawing in -power and holding-power. Parents clearly appreciated this new way of learning and were themselves interested in using the technology. We also had many teachers among our visitors, and we heard many of them wishing they had this kind of tools at school. People appreciated the physical aspect of the workshop, as well as the social one: they jumped around and talked a lot while counting."

Siina Vasama, Event Producer, Heureka, the Finnish Science Centre
  • Image from science park Heureka at Finland where we tested some of the educational applictions with good result
  • Image from science park Heureka at Finland where we tested some of the educational applictions with good result
  • Image from science park Heureka at Finland where we tested some of the educational applictions with good result
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