Virtual Chemical Experiment Using Cyber Assistant Professor: CAP

Abstract

This paper describes the summary of cyber assistant professor (CAP) and the scenario language named cyber person scenario language 3(CPSL3). On teaching the theory, principle or mechanism of science, the most effective teaching material may be an actual video. However, actually it is difficult to take pictures of invisible science phenomena. Moreover the production cost of the actual video may be too large depending on the subject and it is difficult to produce interactive educational contents. Against this situation, CAP provides the capability of producing interactive educational contents which can visualize the invisible science phenomena by using 3D-CG animations, as easy to produce as a Web page on the Internet. And on the modification of scenarios, CAP also provides the capability of changing, revising or extending the story of virtual actorpsilas speech and action or the moving of stage parts on the spot of syllabus planning. This reusability is superior to actual videos. This paper also describes about teaching materials developed by using CPSL3 and the details of virtual experiment using CAP. As a result of our experiment, we are convinced that our system can supply suitable teaching materials of science to the junior high school students.