We report on the design and development of HandWaver, a gesture-based mathematical making environment for use with immersive, room-scale virtual reality. A beta version of HandWaver was developed at the IMRE Lab at the University of Maine and released in the spring of 2017. Our goal in developing HandWaver was to harness the modes of representation and interaction available in virtual environments and use them to create experiences where learners use their hands to make and modify mathematical objects.
Dr. Justin Dimmel, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education and Instructional Technology, UMaine; RiSE Center
Camden Bock , Graduate Research Assistant, College of Education and Human Development, UMaine; RiSE Center