Edütain Demonstration Video and Project Files

A demonstration video with 90 seconds of duration was chosen as the best way to showcase the project as it would help the audience to understand the gameplay of the game.

Project files: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tqoSwcPAXYko2o8GuUF3yhPrR_96lVyv/view?usp=sharing

Final Project: Edutain

Concept

This project is intended to help young children learn basic compulsory knowledge such as the alphabet, numbers, colors, and certain objects, quickly in a fun way. This interactive multimedia educational installation is constructed of Unity project, Kinect device, and a projector. Unity is utilized to program and execute interactivity and graphics element, Kinect as the motion sensing device, and a projector to project the visual on to a vertical flat surface. These enable participants to engage with the installation through four choices of different types of games within; mathematical equation games, identify objects and arrange the alphabet of the object’s name, identify colors and collecting the items with the same color, matching animals card with memory games.

Project Evaluation

Limitations
Design Limitations

In the color game, type of item is limited to 5 items per color. However, I did not manage to code all of the items in, thus resulting in 5 items for the color red, and only 2 items for the rest of the colors.

The animation in this game feels a bit flat. Also, the audio could have been implied for the game such as in the color game to mention the color and saying animal’s name when matching the animals.

Summary Schedule

User Testing Results

Installation setup for user testing

Some of the user testing participants

Observation Results

Installation setup for observation

Observation participants

Interaction Considerations

First installation mockup

Final installation mockup after the finalized idea

Design Experiments 2: Kinect with Unity

Experiment 7: Kinect with Unity

In this experiment, I tried to access the depth data in Unity measured by the Kinect using Kinect v2 plugin for unity.

Processing to Unity

The initial idea for this project was to make an interactive educational game with physical balls as the game control to triggers a digital reaction. This idea bridges the gap between real physical and virtual world. The mechanism was for the player to throw the physical balls “into” a virtual scene projected on a wall. The technologies that have been used were Microsoft Kinect for Windows v2 and InFocus X6 projector. The front-end design was created using Adobe Illustrator, in which would be programmed using Processing.