“ARRES” Augmented Reality for the human respiratory system

Abstract

Technology is advancing at a brisk pace as many things that were not possible a few years ago are possible now. Augmented Reality is a synthetic, computer simulated reality or recreation of a real-time environment where a user can interact with the replicated real environments. Biology is only taught in conventional way through books so it makes the students only pay their attention to texts and pictures to catch their interest, the lesson will get more interesting and interactive if the students can look at the process directly in the form of 3D as it makes students memorize it at ease. Respiratory and blood circulation system are examples from Biology for second grade of Junior High School. By applying Augmented Reality, they can take a lesson interactively through digital object in a reality. The design of Augmented Reality in respiratory and blood circulation system for Junior High School students is made with Blender application. The making of AR application with android platform uses game engine unity. Based on the functional test conducted by the researchers, it can be concluded that by applying the application, the users can gain the information related to the human respiratory and blood circulation system can be conveyed interestingly and interactively to the students.