Proposal of AR application for enhancing curiosity about educational toy

Abstract

This paper proposes a new educational toy using an AR technology, called “AR Puzzle”. The AR puzzle is based on a silhouette puzzle. This AR puzzle aims to increase children’s curiosities when they try to the puzzle. We focus on the creation process of a silhouette puzzle and a sense of accomplishment when the puzzle is completed. Concretely, we implements the two functions: displaying some hints for solving the puzzle and the visual effect for enhancing the sense of accomplishment. When a smartphone camera captures a few pieces of the puzzle, a 3D object appears on the smartphone display. A user should create a correct silhouette using some hints. In addition, we added some visual and sound effects as the function for give a sense of accomplishment in the case of finishing the puzzle. We expect that these functions increase users curiosities in the educational toys.