IMMERSIVE LEARNING USING VIRTUAL REALITY AND AUGMENTED REALITY BASED ON VISUAL SERVOING: APPLICATION TO STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS

In order to apply virtual immersive technologies and augmented reality to students with special educational needs, this paper proposes the creation of immersive virtual environments. These technologies permit to model real environments enabling real individual attention to students with special educational needs. To perform the immersive 3D solution an integrated system composed of software, computers, displays, projectors and glasses is applied. Furthermore, a new technique based on visual servoing for augmented reality is developed. From this perspective, virtual technologies are inclusive educational support, since they allow the students with special educational needs perform structured tasks adjusted to the possibilities of each one. Through the virtual environments developed, the adaptation to cognitive styles and educational needs of these students are achieved. As the paper describes, using virtual reality and augmented reality, the autonomous learning of these students are improved.