Timeframe

S1

S2

S3

Final

Initial Brainstorming

Concept Research

Project Development

Project Development

Senior Trip



Midreview

Research

Object Salience within Memorization

Emerging Technologies

Vocabulary Memorization within Language Education

BRAGI

BRAGI stands for Bilingual Reality Augmentation for Global Immersion. BRAGI is an application designed to run on an augmented reality platform such as the Meta Quest 3 or Apple Vision Pro. The goal of the project is to simulate immersive language education. The scope for this specific project is a vocabulary memorization system, aiming to support word retention. Inspired by Duolingo learning units, this application presents a novel approach to language education based on object salience as a means to expand a user's vocabulary in a foreign language.

Precedents

Noun Town

MondlyAR

Duolingo

Outreach

Brady Rice

Karl Brommer

Rachel Self

Linguistics Student at UNH

Engineer

Attorney

Goals

The goal of this project is to aid the user in Spanish vocabulary memorization.

Learning Goal

This app will display flashcards over real-world objects, which will quiz users on the Spanish pronunciation of the objects.

Functional Goal

I aim to quantify the application's performance with regards to price per word learned.

Testing Goal

Methodology

Software Development

Application Design

Data Analysis

User Testing

Software Development

User Flow

UX Design

Data Analysis

• Dashboard data representation
• Accuracy
• Perseverence
• Spaced Repetition

User Testing

Financial Performance

Educational Performance

I will measure financial performance by determining the cost-per-interaction of the model

I will measure educational performance by determining the number of interactions needed to learn a word

Features

1. Object recognition
2. Word pronunciation
3. Vocal verification
4. Data visualization

Feature Roadmap

Video Feed

• Oculus privacy policy
• Android Debugger

YOLO Performance

Object Detection Troubleshooting

Flashcard Design

• Quiz vs. Flashcard
• Recording Interaction

Translation and Vocal Verification

Frontend Website

Data Management

Final Functionality

Comparative Financial Analysis

• Current public schooling system is spending, on average, $20 monthly per student for language memorization solutions.
• BRAGI uses pay-by-use, averaging $0.00067 per word.
• BRAGI maximum usage costs $6.25 per student
• for the 42.4 million public school students, the pay-by-use model would save $652 million annually.
• AR integration would boost initial investment by $231 million.

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Comparative Efficiency Analysis

• Bragi has a learning rate of 8-10 interactions per word.
• Mainstream applications have a learning rate of 12-16.
• It should be noted, this could be due to enhanced engagement rather than object salience
• Price per word is 30 times less than current price of $0.33

Final Takeaways

This application couldn't teach fluency alone, but it sets a precedent for the curation of a cost-effective pay-by-use education model and supports current data on the use of AR to boost student engagement and performance.

Special Thanks!

Brady Rice

Nada Elsonni

Keenan Gray

Reflections

Capstone Timeline

Research

Outreach

Observations

Brainstorming

Refining

Final Presentation

I spent ten years in a Montessori classroom and I loved every second of my time there. Throughout the years, I learned important building blocks that make the foundation of who I am today. Now, in my final year at NuVu, I love looking into the innovations of technology and how they can benefit the world. This project is the crossroads of two components that are very important to my life: my Montessori education and my love for pushing the limits of what's possible.

Inspiration

Importance

• This year's American Montessori Society's annual conference main theme was Artificial Intelligence

• Future technologies will play a large part in our future, we need to prepare future generations to excel in that world

• If used in the right setting it can help students develop important cognitive skills

Literature Review

• The 4PADAFE instructional design matrix illustrates a practical application of AI in education, enhancing understanding and engagement through personalized assistance.

• Generative design utilizes AI to enhance human creativity rather than replace it, fostering innovation across fields.



• "If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom."

Emphasize the point that there were doubters of Montessori, and there are now doubters of AI and future technology, but they will be proven wrong like the doubters of Montessori cirriculum

What Is Montessori?

• Teachers are Facilitators
• Freedom to Explore
• Hands-on Learning

Why Technology Doesn't Fit

• Focus on Physical Materials
• Freedom Within Limits
• Direct Interaction with Environment

Outreach

Blake Johnson

Multi-Faceted

Storytelling

Impressionistic

Concrete

Starting Points

Mr. Bob

• Tech Educator
• Always excited about Tech
• Taught Me!!

Pins

Interactive Blocks

Student Identifier

Interactive Display

Brainstorming

Using AI adaptively

Interactive Digital Display

$$$

Too Digital

Multifaceted

Story Telling

Augmented Reality

What About AR?

• Look at existing technology in the classroom
• How is technology being used? Independent or collaboratively?
• How do the teachers feel about it?

WWF Free Rivers AR Game

Questions For Observations

Classroom Observations

Montessori

Technology

Teachers

• Almost everything is learned through discovery and observation
• The open environment encourages self correction

• There is a physical component in every lesson
• Everything is reinforced with reflection/debriefs

• Technology is used to experience the impossible
• Teachers use technology to reinforce what is being learned with physical materials.

Re-Framing

Montessori

Technology

Teachers

Discovery & Exploration

Experience The Impossible

Physical Components

Augmented Reality

"Experience The Impossible"

Sketches

Mocking Quick Prototype

Wireframe

Wireframe

More Interaction!!

More Immersive!!

Material Design

3D Modeling

Object Detection

AR Functionality

3D Modeling

Animation

Design

Material Design

Material Design

Object Detection

AR Functionality

Combining Components

Sorry Maria Montessori

Realism

Collaboration

Thank You!!

Sue Angelides 

Krista Bartolome

Anna Dubrowski

Nada Elsonni

Kari Frentzel

Keenan Gray

Isabel Jacobs

Blake Johnson

Masha Karbovskaya

Rob MacDonald

John Mendizabal

Isa Murray

Amy Neale

Laura O'Leary

Annu Radha Kumar

Sammy Sass

Keith Schacht

Katelyn Shore

Robert Sisson

Matt Stalberger

Hunter Stillwell

Diane Sullivan

Jon Turnquist

Elka Walter

Being able to understand my experiences, thoughts, and emotions play a huge role in how I take on life. Having time dedicated towards reflecting and documenting the past and present, (recent or not) helps me understand myself and my way of thinking. I also find it fun to look back on previous moments throughout my life, with seeing and appreciating the different changes and experiences that happen throughout time.

However, each day, week, and month, I "don't seem to have enough time" for those moments to get back in touch with myself. With the distraction of social media and the online world, it is now rare that I take moments for reflection and to just be present.

So when starting off capstone, I made the choice of creating a large scale installation to challenge my high fidelity physical protyping, along with allowing myself and others to take time for themselves in an interactive space.

Background

• Focusing on staying presents/ in the moment/ slowing down
• time for reflection
• time for yourself
• physical interaction with the space
• adding to the space
• creating/ visualizing your own path while seeing /connecting with others' paths (?)
• colorful - visual interest
• tactile - interactive interest/ curiosity (?)
• 

Personal: Why does it matter to me? Why did I choose this?

intro

• too much time wasted/ spent on my phone/ Instagram
• wanting to take more time each day for reflection
• wanting to take time to record the happier good moments that happen in the everyday life
• 

add picture here :>

add another sentance about/ introducing making a larger installation

alsos people to pause and reflect

This is why I decided to focus my capstone on an interactive exhibition that would allow people to reflect on their life journey and be in the present moment.

Research Says...

Memory

Emotions

Experiences

In this process I started to dig deeper into research to better understand the effect of our current culture on youth mental health - social media bla blah- and how memories are formed and how it connect with emotions

• Emotions:
• decreases emotional well being with over consumption/ other
• Memory:
• can decrease the strength of holding onto memories - especially when getting older in age
• over usage of phone/ social media etc also takes away time for creating more core memories and experiences

Paula as my advisor, - creating goals / pinpointing design elements etc

shes a deisgn coach from nuvu that helped me with my concept development

john with the fabrication production

Picture of John

Advisor & Special Thanks

Paula Garza Gonzales

John Mendizabal

Design Coach

Physical Fabrication

Wonderspaces - Austin TX Looking for Inspiration

Path Patterns is an interactive and immersive installation that encourages people to reflect in the present moment. The installation is based around us living in a fast-paced culture and fosters people to get back in touch with themselves and their surroundings.

The user chooses a colored yarn and weaves their own visual representation of their path that brought them to who they are today. Users start their weaving in a panel and wall of their choice, and add as much of a design as they want. Their choice of color and visual exploration will help them further reflect on their paths and how they interact with others'.

Project Statement

• focusing on staying presents/ in the moment/ slowing down
• time for reflection
• time for yourself
• physical interaction with the space
• adding to the space
• creating/ visualizing your own path while seeing /connecting with others' paths (?)
• colorful - visual interest
• tactile - interactive interest/ curiosity (?)
• path/ path in life

• encouraging thoughtfulness, staying in the moment, and reflection

where people are reflecting on a memory and representing it through threading and weaving in a panel.

What to prompt people with? reflective question

 installation's form

interactivity of people

Elements of Design

- User & Form -

user and form

Installation Form/ Visual Structure

User Interactions With The Space

User Experience & Reflection

form= organic vs orthogonal, be intrigued by the visuals

user experience = reflection prompt, talk about all the iterative prompts, have fun

user interactions = how are people entering the installation, moving, interacting with one another, pause staying in the moment, be immersed

(Physical experience vs mental experience)

[more sketches/ structure ideas]

say "why" about each sketches/ how did i do that with the sketches

Prototype 1

(oragami boxes)

[more sketches/ structure ideas]

sketch model

Material / Form Finding

Form Tests