Designing and planning children educational applications

Krzysztof Wo k is a specialist and PHD candidate at Polish Japanese Institute of Information Technology.

On the market, the games for children about child safety on the road are the very rare item. However, this is very important because every year, hundreds of children are killed under the wheels of vehicles . On average, once a year, the actions and contests are organized, for example, by the Police Headquarters and companies such as LOTOS or Renault - mostly before the holidays, about safe trip or safe return from school, but they do not have sufficient publicity to reach out to children. Finding information about them is also very hard. It is therefore necessary to design an application - an educational game, which will have fun and information about which types of child behavior are dangerous, and what they should do to watch out for themselves while crossing the street, where to go safely, where to call when they witness an accident on the road, etc.. Aim of this work is to design and implement the children's games with educational and child safety purposes on the road. This project could become an educational tool for parents and teachers in the kindergartens or schools, who would like to use the method of learning through play.