Enriching Classroom Scenarios with Tagged Objects

Over the last recent years, the technology of RF-ID tags enriched a lot of different scenarios. Already at the very beginning, this technology was considered to be useful in the area of CSCL (Computer Supported Collaborative Learning). This paper describes an approach that uses RF-ID tags in order to store information about objects used in a physical simulation environment. Hereby, the stored information and therefore the RF-ID tags help to bridge the gap between a physical environment and a virtual setting in a collaborative modelling and design system.