astrolabE igam4er finalist 2013
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Romain Maire Nikolas Stott Julien Tanneau
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AstrolabE comes from the work of three MINES ParisTech students: Romain Maire, Nikolas Stott and Julien Tanneau. The software was developed during their Acte d’Entreprendre project, that takes place over the first two years at MINES ParisTech. This course aims at pushing the students to realise independently a project they care about.After an idea of Mr. Uzan and Lehoucq, researchers respectively at IAP (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris) and CEA (Commissariat aux Energies Atomiques et Alternatives), who we thank for their technical and relational help, and for their suggestions, we have chosen to modernize the ancient astrolabe in order to :Help astronomers to look at the sky another way Fill an educational goal, by animating initiations to astronomy and its history feature. - check out more at: http://www.igam4er.org/projects/view/88/astrolabe#sthash.HIOjIgyr.dpuf
Transcript of astrolabE igam4er finalist 2013
Romain Maire
Nikolas Stott
Julien Tanneau
Maths Physics
History of Science
Astronomy
Hard to find, and often expensive
Difficult to use
Depends on a particular latitude, fixed number of stars.
Our solution : a digital astrolabe.
User oriented learning
Four chronological quests: ◦ Greek quest: handling the astrolabe
◦ Arab quest: travel, predictions
◦ Renaissance: astronomy concepts, navigation
◦ Nowadays: using the digital astrolabe for more complex problems
Quest: Greek Quest ◦ Mission 1 title
Objective 1: instructions o Help from the astronomer
o Validation when astrolabe in right set up
o Scientific or historical explanation
Objective 2
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◦ Mission 2
During the quests : storyline
Sandbox: do as it pleases you
Challenges: random, timed problems
Larger public touched by the app
Handling the astrolabe and learning sciences at the same time
Designed for amateurs, but suitable for any public
