Abstract
Nursery school managers are working hard in order to fill the capacity in connection with the birthrate decrease, and also directing their power towards childcare everyday. And more, they are going to attain management differentiation by providing infantile guardians with various services. Especially, the guardians are comparatively young. Among them, a person with the high information literacy called “Digital Mama” also exists. Therefore, the service using the information technology is one of the effective means to attain management differentiation. This paper reports the development of a high-tech infantile service which notifies automatically the nursery pick-up bus location, by detecting with GPS, to the guardian’s mobile phone by E-mail. Universities, a company, and a nursery school participated in the development and the service for a guardian was experimentally offered in the nursery school in southern Osaka. The experimental details, including the questionnaire results, are shown in this paper.
