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Scientific Visual and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) unveil first iPhone app for crystallography students.
The Escher Mobile app helps you to discover and understand the symmetry laws of crystal structures. It simulates the symmetry environment of the 17 planar (two-dimensional) groups, which you can decorate with various objects according to your fantasy. In playing this game you will not only enjoy creating colourful designs a la Escher on your own, but also effortlessly master the main concepts of crystallographic symmetry.
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Escher Mobile :: project page
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Mobile phone + science
We develop iPhone apps for education and science.
We beleive that the main challenge is not to develop 'a software' but to use the mobile technologies to transform education into an integral part of daily life to the point where it is no longer recognized as education at all.
Development process typically takes 1-2 motnhs and include:
- Maturing the idea and concept design
- Desining functionality and graphic user interface (GUI)
- Coding and debugging
- Submitting to App Store and further support
With broad experience in our own research and teaching, we are best fit for e-learning projects related to natural sciences.
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According to the Federation of American Scientists, more than 60% of college students are regular mobile game players. This activity is generally considered as a distraction in student's lives, moving their attention away from education to activities commonly seen as inappropriate for their personal development.
We believe that this trend brings quite opposite - an excellent opportunity to improve scientific education by delivering learning content through mobile devices and games. Gaming provide a number of interactions which develop important skills in the player and also inspires motivation and interest which are indispensable for acquiring new knowledge. Nowadays, when science has an 'image problem' and number of students in natural sciences drops, we shall take the opportunity to use mobile digital media to illustrate the concepts, which are a priori perceived as difficult.
This concerns especially physics, chemistry and material science which handle theory and numerical information, which might be easily formalized.
MORE on the trend
Article in J. Appl. Cryst. 39, 595-597 (PDF)
Swiss Society of Crystallography :: Newsletter