Human Anatomy Learning Systems Using Augmented Reality on Mobile Application

TLDR

Students struggle to learn human anatomy because 2‑D representations limit 3‑D visualization. The study aims to develop an augmented‑reality mobile system to teach human anatomy. The system captures AR markers with a mobile camera, processes the images using the Floating Euphoria Framework and an SQLite database to match patterns, and renders interactive 3‑D visualizations of the whole body or specific organs. Evaluation with high‑school and medical students shows that the AR system makes learning human anatomy easier and more effective.

Abstract

Students generally experience difficulties in learning human body anatomy due to constraints to visualize the body anatomy from 2D into 3D image. This research aims to develop a human anatomy learning system using augmented reality technology. By using this system, it is expected that students can easily understand the anatomy of the human body using a 3D image visualization. The method used in this system is augmented reality marker on mobile computing platform. The marker is captured by taking a picture. Then, the captured image is divided into pieces and the pattern is matched with images stored in the database. In this research, we use Floating Euphoria Framework and combine it with the SQLite database. Augmented reality anatomy system of the human body has features that can interactively display the whole body or parts of the human organs. To evaluate the usefulness of the application, we tested the augmented reality anatomy system with high school students and medical students for learning the anatomy of the human body. The results show that the human anatomy learning system with interactive augmented reality visualization helps students learn human anatomy more easily.