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SyTroN: Virtual Desk for Collaborative, Tele-operated and Tele-learning System with Real Devices

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Technologies for E-Learning and Digital Entertainment (Edutainment 2008)

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Tele-training is a main issue nowadays and it is strongly motivated by the increased mobility of people. This mobility shouldn’t be a limit for a good training: pertinence and efficiency have to be the core of distant training environments. In this paper, we introduce SyTroN, a tele-learning system using virtual reality and tele-operation techniques. The first aim is to propose intuitive virtual classrooms/desks supervised by a real teacher for collaborative or individual distant learning, using Internet. The second goal is to go from virtual to real: SyTroN supports the connection to real devices, potentially rare and expensive, allowing distant experimentation’s abstracted by virtual tools. After 5 years of development, our work has been validated with psychologic tests, which highlight the efficiency of our global system on one year of use within an engineering school.

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Chellali, R., Mollet, N., Dumas, C., Subileau, G. (2008). SyTroN: Virtual Desk for Collaborative, Tele-operated and Tele-learning System with Real Devices. In: Pan, Z., Zhang, X., El Rhalibi, A., Woo, W., Li, Y. (eds) Technologies for E-Learning and Digital Entertainment. Edutainment 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5093. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69736-7_17

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