Repository logo

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
  1. Home
  2. Academic and Research Output
  3. Journal articles
  4. MoleculARweb: A Web Site for Chemistry and Structural Biology Education through Interactive Augmented Reality out of the Box in Commodity Devices
 
research article

MoleculARweb: A Web Site for Chemistry and Structural Biology Education through Interactive Augmented Reality out of the Box in Commodity Devices

Rodriguez, Fabio Cortes  
•
Frattini, Gianfranco
•
Krapp, Lucien F.
Show more
July 13, 2021
Journal Of Chemical Education

Augmented/virtual realities (ARs/VRs) promise to revolutionize STEM education. However, most easy-to-use tools are limited to static visualizations, which limits the approachable content, whereas more interactive and dynamic alternatives require costly hardware, preventing large-scale use and evaluation of pedagogical effects. Here, we introduce https://MoleculARweb.epfl.ch, a free, open-source web site with interactive AR webpage-based apps that work out-of-the-box in laptops, tablets, and smartphones, where students and teachers can naturally handle virtual objects to explore molecular structure, reactivity, dynamics, and interactions, covering topics from inorganic, organic, and biological chemistry. With these web apps, teachers and science communicators can develop interactive material for their lessons and hands-on activities for their students and target public, in person or online, as we exemplify. Thousands of accesses to moleculARweb attest to the ease of use; teacher feedback attests to the utility in online teaching and homework during a pandemic; and in-class plus online surveys show that users find AR engaging and useful for teaching and learning chemistry. These observations support the potential of AR in future education and show the large impact that modern web technologies have in democratizing access to digital learning tools, providing the possibility to mass-test the pedagogical effect of these technologies in STEM education.

  • Details
  • Metrics
Type
research article
DOI
10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c00179
Web of Science ID

WOS:000674270800012

Author(s)
Rodriguez, Fabio Cortes  
Frattini, Gianfranco
Krapp, Lucien F.
Martinez-Hung, Hassan
Moreno, Diego M.
Roldan, Mariana
Salomon, Jorge
Stemkoski, Lee
Traeger, Sylvain
Dal Peraro, Matteo  
Show more
Date Issued

2021-07-13

Publisher

AMER CHEMICAL SOC

Published in
Journal Of Chemical Education
Volume

98

Issue

7

Start page

2243

End page

2255

Subjects

Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

•

Education, Scientific Disciplines

•

Chemistry

•

Education & Educational Research

•

general public

•

high school/introductory chemistry

•

first-year undergraduate

•

second-year undergraduate

•

biochemistry

•

inorganic chemistry

•

organic chemistry

•

acids/bases

•

molecular biology

•

molecular modeling

•

virtual-reality

•

protein-structure

•

visualization

•

exploration

•

software

•

models

•

hand

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

Written at

EPFL

EPFL units
UPDALPE  
Available on Infoscience
July 31, 2021
Use this identifier to reference this record
https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/180367
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
  • Contact
  • infoscience@epfl.ch

  • Follow us on Facebook
  • Follow us on Instagram
  • Follow us on LinkedIn
  • Follow us on X
  • Follow us on Youtube
AccessibilityLegal noticePrivacy policyCookie settingsEnd User AgreementGet helpFeedback

Infoscience is a service managed and provided by the Library and IT Services of EPFL. © EPFL, tous droits réservés