Vocational training with combined real/virtual environments

Is it possible to interconnect physical learning media and computer-based learning? If so, what do we gain by attempting this? We will describe the conceptual evolution, as well as various results of a project aimed at the development of a computer-supported learning environment for pneumatics, targeted at vocational students. This environment uses a new approach to human/computer interaction, which involves coupling the building of models in the real space of physical objects with the virtual space of signs and images.