The initial light-bulbing idea:

As I was young, always wish to catch the light beam on the wall or celling, which looks foolish but it is strange kids are quite enjoy in it. Therefore, by what I was thinking, to give the effect of casting sorcery or showing your own magic figures by using gesture control in the further developed apps or AR games could be my feature, even though I have thought about using in projection mapping, the limitation of environment, time of the day, and also could be controlled light which is no longer suit my audience.

The intended idea/concept of the project:

According to the magical lights idea, it is made me think of fairy tells, as the fairy in there always have the magic power and the shining blinking dust follows them. An idea of reinvestigating/presenting fairy tells come into my mind.

As discussing with my classmates, we have came up with an idea, which children can go through a story according to their own wishes that means a same story could be end up differently with various intended personalities. So that, they could experience the story as a main character and fully immerse themselves in it as an entertainment games.

After the tutorial talk to Clive my tutor, he suggests to choose one story or make it a series. Searching through some press found that lady-bird have a series of fairy tell audio books, which I could make it video visible by utilising Augment reality. The suggestion being made was for the little children at their kindergarten stage, and a story will be presented by interactive cards. These would be used in nurseries and their teachers will be in charge of handing out the cards, once whoever finished a part of reading will get a card which relative to what they have read and play with it. The propose of this is for using reward theory combining with new technology to encourage children read when they are at their younger stage.

Research of Ladybird:

https://www.penguin.co.uk/ladybird/milestones/

First of all, the age stage of Ladybird sets, 0-18 months, 1.5-3 years, 3-5 years when at nursery, and 5-7 years which they are at their primary school period.

By learning the information which has given, I starts understands more about the younger children behaviours and their interests.

Since their age 3, a big bang of their imagination expected, in the other words, they will be start interesting in role play and most of the magical or fascinating stories. Therefore let them be a main character walk around with 3D modelled characters are likely attract them very much.

Learning from the article of British council, understands what would they be interested in is not enough to build an interactive game, but learn how to build the right app for right years of children would also important for helping them make the most out of our app/ game play.

https://www.britishcouncil.org/voices-magazine/can-apps-really-help-children-learn-languages