Scientists have long relied on imaging to visualize invisible phenomena and thus advance science. The Infrared Explorer is a smartphone app that we are developing to realize the educational promise of scientific imaging — using low-cost thermal imaging as an exmaple.

• PlatformAndroid & iOS
• StackJava + Swift

• Theory of concreteness fading offers a framework to combine their advantages for making connections in these different settings – by beginning with physical interactions with concrete instantiations of a garget concept, and gradually and explicitly fading toward more abstract representations
  
  Featured Research AwardXing, W., Huang, X., Li, C., & Xie, C. (2020). Design and evaluation of Augmented Infrared Reality for students’ learning of thermodynamics. Presented at the Annual International Convention of Association of Educational Communications and Technology.
  Xing, W., Li, C., & Xie, C. (under review). Teaching Thermodynamics with Augmented Interaction and Learning Analytics. Computers & Education.
• As a mobile app, the Infrared Explorer can be used anywhere to capture thermal images, record videos, and share them through email or social networks. The app has its own galleries for storing images and videos, which also provide many functionalities for managing, editing, and annotating images and videos.