Interactive 3D Visualization of Chemical Structure Diagrams Embedded in Text to Aid Spatial Learning Process of Students

• DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.9b00690
• Publication Date: 2020-03-04T20:28:45Z
• Authors: Amal Fatemah; Shahzad Rasool; Uzma Habib
• Keywords: On the fly; Spatial Ability; Chemistry Education; Identification

Students undertaking courses in the field of chemistry need to integrate their spatial skills and conceptual knowledge. However, model perception along with understanding processes structures molecules has been a cause difficulty for students as conventional teaching methods cannot fully aid student comprehension. In this research, we propose technological solution learning process by automatically creating link between two-dimensional (2D) representations chemical three-dimensional (3D) molecular visualization. The image structure is acquired processed on-the-fly identification 3D generation. simplified real-time interactive rendering. efficacy proposed enhancing ability individuals evaluated through an experiment on first year undergraduate students. Our analysis results suggests that virtual models mobile applications are capable narrowing performance gap different levels ability.