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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">109</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
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        <publisher-name>Journal of Universal Computer Science</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3217/jucs-025-05-0489</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">22609</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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          <subject>H.5.2 - User Interfaces</subject>
          <subject>K.3.1 - Computer Uses in Education</subject>
          <subject>K.3.2 - Computer and Information Science Education</subject>
          <subject>L.3.0 - eLearning Systems/Technology/Tools/Platforms</subject>
          <subject>L.3.6 - Technology Enhanced Learning</subject>
          <subject>L.3.8 - User interface</subject>
          <subject> Adaption</subject>
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        <article-title>Developing and Assessing Augmented Reality Applications for Mathematics with Trainee Instructional Media Designers: An Exploratory Study on User Experience</article-title>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Kazanidis</surname>
            <given-names>Ioannis</given-names>
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          <email xlink:type="simple">kazanidis@teiemt.gr</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Pellas</surname>
            <given-names>Nikolaos</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A2">2</xref>
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      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology, Kavala, Greece</addr-line>
        <institution>Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Kavala</addr-line>
        <country>Greece</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A2">
        <label>2</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">University of the Aegean, Syros, Greece</addr-line>
        <institution>University of the Aegean</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Syros</addr-line>
        <country>Greece</country>
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      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Ioannis Kazanidis (<email xlink:type="simple">kazanidis@teiemt.gr</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2019</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>28</day>
        <month>05</month>
        <year>2019</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>25</volume>
      <issue>5</issue>
      <fpage>489</fpage>
      <lpage>514</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/E2D5E894-B985-5CFF-B1D9-BD013D0E8467">E2D5E894-B985-5CFF-B1D9-BD013D0E8467</uri>
      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/4840822">4840822</uri>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>24</day>
          <month>09</month>
          <year>2018</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>20</day>
          <month>05</month>
          <year>2019</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Ioannis Kazanidis, Nikolaos Pellas</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>Various interactive and innovative applications generated by Augmented Reality (AR) technology have given great potentials in different learning subjects and specifically in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education. Nevertheless, previous studies regarding AR integration inside classrooms have shown that as a valuable technology for students' motivation and participation alone cannot automatically lead to its successful use. This study focuses on teaching and learning mathematics by taking advantage of AR technology to visualize several problems and let users interact with its contents. In this perspective, the purpose of this study is to present an instructional approach by which competencies of seventy-eight (n=78) trainee instructional media designers with a successful and appropriate integration of AR technology inside classroom contexts using HP Reveal and Blippar. In favor of designing and assessing AR applications for mathematics, the instructional media designers have shown satisfactory performance and user experience. Specifically, all AR applications seemed that enable the representation of intuitive learning scenarios and increased greatly users' interactive experience, thus encouraging their achievements and outcomes. This study contributes to the most relevant practices of teaching and learning for mathematics with the integration of AR applications which are developed by trainee instructional media designers to support successfully the educational process with several examples to be visualized by merging physical ("target tracking") with digital features and objects.</p>
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