Proceedings of the 2023 4th International Conference on Education, Knowledge and Information Management (ICEKIM 2023)

Developing Augmented Reality Mobile App for Learning Nucleophilic Substitution Reaction Mechanisms in Organic Chemistry: User Perception and Experience

Authors
Chiew Lin Yap1, *, Jaya Kumar Karunagharan1, Jason Chia Keh Leong1, Iman Yi Liao1, Hock Siang Lee1
1Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Nottingham Malaysia, Jalan Broga, 43500, Semenyih, Selangor, Malaysia
*Corresponding author. Email: Chiew-lin.Yap@nottingham.edu.my
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Chiew Lin Yap
Available Online 30 June 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-172-2_124How to use a DOI?
Keywords
augmented reality; nucleophilic substitution reaction; chemistry; perception; user experience
Abstract

A prototype AR mobile app “Immersive Nucleophilic Substitution” (INS) has been developed to assist students in understanding the concept of unimolecular nucleophilic substitution (SN1) and bimolecular nucleophilic substitution (SN2) reaction mechanisms. This study aims to examine the perception and user experience of the INS app among the university Foundation in Science students. An online questionnaire with a 7-point Likert scale was used to measure the perceptions towards the AR from the aspects of performance, effort, social influence and motivation, and the user experience in terms of presence, usability, and flow. Open-ended questions were included to further understand the participant’s experience with the INS app. There were 29 responses collected. The overall perception of students was rather positive (M = 5.00, SD = 1.00). Students perceived the app as more beneficial to increase their learning productivity but less enjoyable and motivating. They felt the app provided sufficient realism, responded well to the students’ actions and had a good-quality interface. However, it is somehow unnecessarily cumbersome, dull, and boring. The overall positive rating (M = 5.55, SD = 1.33) indicates the INS app was fairly well received by students and feasible to progress for the learning outcome evaluation.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2023 4th International Conference on Education, Knowledge and Information Management (ICEKIM 2023)
Series
Atlantis Highlights in Computer Sciences
Publication Date
30 June 2023
ISBN
978-94-6463-172-2
ISSN
2589-4900
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-172-2_124How to use a DOI?
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© 2023 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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