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Article

BabloXR: An Authoring Tool for Developing WebXR Educational Applications †

by
María Lucía Barrón-Estrada
1,
Ramón Zatarain-Cabada
1,*,
Manuel Alberto Sotelo-Rivas
1,
María Blanca Ibáñez
2 and
Víctor Manuel Bátiz-Beltrán
1
1
Instituto Tecnológico de Culiacán, Tecnológico Nacional de México, Culiacán 80220, Sinaloa, Mexico
2
Departamento de Ingeniería Telemática, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 28911 Leganés, Spain
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This paper is an extended version of our paper published in Zatarain Cabada, R.; Barrón Estrada, M.L.; Sotelo Rivas, M.A.; Ibáñez, M.B. An Authoring Tool for XR Learning Environments. In Proceedings of the Extended Reality; De Paolis, L.T., Arpaia, P., Sacco, M., Eds.; Springer Nature Switzerland: Cham, 2024; pp. 192–208.
Multimodal Technol. Interact. 2025, 9(6), 52; https://doi.org/10.3390/mti9060052
Submission received: 28 April 2025 / Revised: 27 May 2025 / Accepted: 27 May 2025 / Published: 29 May 2025
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Theories and Practices for Designing and Evaluating Inclusive Educational Technology and Online Learning)
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Abstract

Different areas of education have undergone a significant transformation due to the rapid progress of extended reality in recent years. Nonetheless, existing eXtended Reality (XR) authoring tools often require advanced programming skills, limiting their accessibility to educators and students. To address this challenge, we introduce BabloXR, an intuitive authoring tool that leverages Blockly to enable visual, code-free programming for creating educational XR environments. BabloXR was evaluated through a user study involving teachers and students who successfully designed their own XR learning environments. The results indicate that users of BabloXR were able to create complete and detailed scenarios, with usability testing revealing high ease of use, positive user experience, and strong interest in extended reality.
Keywords: authoring tools; extended reality; WebXR; learning technologies authoring tools; extended reality; WebXR; learning technologies

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Barrón-Estrada, M.L.; Zatarain-Cabada, R.; Sotelo-Rivas, M.A.; Ibáñez, M.B.; Bátiz-Beltrán, V.M. BabloXR: An Authoring Tool for Developing WebXR Educational Applications. Multimodal Technol. Interact. 2025, 9, 52. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti9060052

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Barrón-Estrada ML, Zatarain-Cabada R, Sotelo-Rivas MA, Ibáñez MB, Bátiz-Beltrán VM. BabloXR: An Authoring Tool for Developing WebXR Educational Applications. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction. 2025; 9(6):52. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti9060052

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Barrón-Estrada, María Lucía, Ramón Zatarain-Cabada, Manuel Alberto Sotelo-Rivas, María Blanca Ibáñez, and Víctor Manuel Bátiz-Beltrán. 2025. "BabloXR: An Authoring Tool for Developing WebXR Educational Applications" Multimodal Technologies and Interaction 9, no. 6: 52. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti9060052

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Barrón-Estrada, M. L., Zatarain-Cabada, R., Sotelo-Rivas, M. A., Ibáñez, M. B., & Bátiz-Beltrán, V. M. (2025). BabloXR: An Authoring Tool for Developing WebXR Educational Applications. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 9(6), 52. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti9060052

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