Augmented Reality for Chemical Elements, PERIODIKAR

A periodic table is a group of arranged chemical elements that contain some information for each element. Information in a periodic table usually provided in the text form, which is less interesting to learn. It can be overcome by creating a visualization of each element. Augmented Reality is a technology that can be used for visualizing objects. In this paper, augmented reality technology implemented for visualizing each element in a periodic table, named PeriodikAR. PeriodikAR is an application developed for Android platform by using Vuforia library. The object-tracking technique that is used in this application is markerless augmented reality technique. This application runs dynamically to provide some information of elements in an animated video. The information including the name of each element, atomic number, boiling point, melting point, density, atomic mass, standard atomic weight, oxidation state, symbol, phase, element category, electron configuration and visualization of electron orbital. In this case, the term of dynamic means all the marker and animated video of the application can be added or subtracted without modifying the source code of the application. It is because all the markers and animated videos storage are placed in the different place from the application’s storage. PeriodikAR aims to help academics develop dynamic augmented reality applications. In addition, this application aims to increase the interest of studying the chemical elements. This application has six features that can be used. The result of application test showed that the smallest marker which can be tracked is 1x1,5cm. Animated video as the resulted from that marker has a good quality with no buffering. The contribution of this study is providing development of dynamic augmented reality applications that are used as a learning media of chemical elements.