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Playbook: An Animation-Based Game for Improving Children's Creativity and Problem Solving Skills

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Forouzan Farzinnejad,

Nilufar BaghaeiAuthors Info & Claims

EICS '21: Companion of the 2021 ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

Pages 12 - 16

https://doi.org/10.1145/3459926.3464748

Published: 08 June 2021 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper, we describe the design, development and preliminary evaluation of a novel animation tool for smartphones and tablets, with the goal of improving creativity and problem-solving ability among novice users, mainly young children. The user first draws the objects with markers and crayons on paper and takes a photo with their mobile or tablet to import their drawings into the app as game sprites. They then design their animation scene and point to a part of the character and selecting its animation type from existing buttons. Hence the selected part is animated in a vertex shader while ensuring a smooth transition with the non-pointed part. The results of a preliminary evaluation showed that young children enjoyed interacting with our tool and would recommend it to their friends.

Keywords and Phrases: Creativity; video games; visual animation; ease of use.

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Farzinnejad FHabibi JKhezrian NAfshin Hemmatyar ABaghaei N(2022)Tools for Animation and Shape Manipulation: A Scoping Review2022 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer Science and Data Engineering (CSDE)10.1109/CSDE56538.2022.10089225(1-8)Online publication date: 18-Dec-2022
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Farzinnejad FHabibi JKhezrian NAfshin Hemmatyar ABaghaei N(2022)Tools for Animation and Shape Manipulation: A Scoping Review2022 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer Science and Data Engineering (CSDE)10.1109/CSDE56538.2022.10089225(1-8)Online publication date: 18-Dec-2022
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