The National Science Foundation-supported Interactive Science Through Technology Enhanced Play (iSTEP) project builds on the ongoing Science Through Technology Enhanced Play (STEP) project—which has been using REMAP and Open Perception‘s OpenPTrack as the interface between the movements of groups of elementary school students and media.
iSTEP continues STEP’s investigation of socio-dramatic play and learning about scientific phenomena by adding new forms of embodied engagement with media, such as posing, gesturing and manipulating props, as opposed to full-body interaction only—now possible with OpenPTrack V2 (Gnocchi). A collaboration with the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies (GSEIS), GSEIS/REMAP teams are conducting workshops with groups of elementary school students throughout the Los Angeles area, including UCLA Lab School on the UCLA campus.
Noel Enyedy, Principal Investigator. Co-PIs: Jeff Burke and Fabian Wagmister.
STEP project website: http://sttep.org/.
Supported by NSF Grant No. IIS-1629302.
2016-present.