Grant: Engage Grants Program

The main objective of this project is to develop a technology platform that will allow the creation anddistribution of engaging learning tools to communicate First Nation's perspectives. The traditions of oralhistory, language and interconnectedness, along with culturally compatible health care perspectives, areexpected to be channeled through mobile technology and augmented reality (AR). The goal is to integrate aproprietary Web application development interface (API) data management system that contains First Nations'language and cultural heritage images, videos and audio with both desktop and mobile devices, as well aseducational lessons or material with AR technology. The technology will facilitate the creation of educationallessons that utilize interactive multi-layered AR. More specifically, through this project, we propose to developa software framework with mobile and AR technologies that supports the following functionalities over theweb:(a) registration and authentication services; (b) personalization services; (c) collaborative activities for on-lineusers; (c) messaging services and interactive activities; (c) content management; (d) learning systemsmanagement; (e) effective visualization of virtual elements along real objects in an AR environment; and (f)Web-based streaming for both audio and video contents. The prototype platform implementing this frameworkwill demonstrate the functionality and the accessibility to the content creators, content managers, and end users.