Educators teamed up with visual artists to create a series of 3D interactive animations of human motion in microgravity, which now enable students to learn core curriculum concepts, such as conservation of angular momentum, through latest findings from astronautics research at MIT.<\/p>\n
Description<\/a> In this joint project of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Office of Educational Innovation and Technology, researchers collaborated with visual artists to create three-dimensional visualizations of astronaut motion in microgravity. Through the graphical user interface, which is implemented in X3D, students can interactively explore how astronauts rotate in a microgravity environment without using any external torques, i.e. without contact from the surroundings. These rotations are simulated with results from recent research in astronautics using mathematical algorithms that implement core curriculum concepts, such as conservation of angular momentum. The computer character, which was modeled and texture-mapped in Maya\u00ae, wears a next generation astronaut space suit which MIT researchers develop for NASA.<\/p>\n The astronaut visualizations, which illustrate a fundamental physics law, conservation of angular momentum, can be used in undergraduate Physics and engineering subjects. The implementation, to the best of our knowledge, is the first MIT application of X3D, which is the ISO standard for distribution of real-time 3D graphics on the web. With X3D we can potentially create teaching materials that include real-time, interactive, 3D graphics for subjects in any discipline.<\/p>\n Prof. Dava Newman, Aeronautics and Astronautics 5. Open educational tools and resources<\/em> Poster Presentation\/Demo Abstract Educators teamed up with visual artists to create a series of 3D interactive animations of human motion in microgravity, which now enable students to learn core curriculum concepts, such as conservation of angular momentum, through latest findings from astronautics research at MIT. Description Poster Description of activity, project, solution, and outcome In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech-fair-2009","tag-edtech-fair-2009"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2347,"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions\/2347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPoster<\/a><\/p>\nDescription of activity, project, solution, and outcome<\/h2>\n
Importance or relevance to other faculty, staff, students, departments, and programs<\/h3>\n
\nVioleta Ivanova, Ph.D., OEIT
\n(Presented at MIT Educational Technology Fair 2009)<\/p>\nTopic Area(s)<\/h2>\n
\n6. Promoting cross-departmental collaborations<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"