Design principles for the construction of interactive simulations

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Published: Sep 26, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/codiste.5576
Keywords:
interactive simulation design principles to construct simulations
Michail Stefanis
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Eleni Petridou
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Anastasios Molohidis
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Abstract

In the last decades advances in technological means and possibilities have driven the ever-increasing usage of interactive simulations in the school class with multiple positive outcomes. However, since simulations are created from a mathematical model of reality, some important characteristics of real scientific experiments are not represented. Two elements that are missing from the majority of simulations are the concept of errors and the existence of variables that do not contribute to a certain causality. In this work simulations are being constructed for various subjects of physics that include those new design principles.

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