FYP AR Book: Let’s Recycle

Learning on how to recycle is to be considering as one of the basic
knowledge that children should have. Plus, with rapid evolve of technology
nowadays mobile applications and augmented reality are merged together that it
could be used as one of learning tools for children age of 7 to 9 years old to learn
recycling. This document outlines the introduction of the project, literature review
study of recycling and augmented reality, methodology and project activities, result
and discussion and conclusion of this project.
Various methods have been used to introduce the concept of recycling to
young children which includes advertisements on different types of media such as
television, billboard on highway, newspapers, seminar and talks. Despite these
efforts, level of awareness among them is still considerably low. Thus, the habit of
recycling, i.e. the transformation of awareness into action among them is almost
virtually none. Children still do not know the correct way (how) and the purpose they
need to recycle (why).
Moreover, interesting tools for the children to learn about recycling is very
much lacking. Learning through practical experience is an effective approach to
learning. Thus, the main objective of this project is to create awareness among
children on the importance of recycling. Furthermore, it is also to evaluate the
learning of recycling using an augmented reality and traditional storybook and to
introduce the augmented reality to the children.
Additionally, this project aims to create recycling awareness through the
development of an Augmented Reality (AR) book on Recycling. A mobile AR
application and an AR book on recycling were developed using combination of a few
different software and open source websites for the project. When both of the mobile
application and AR book are used simultaneously, together they creates a fun and
interactive environment for learning the concept of recycling which includes
“practical experience” through games.