Traffic Safety for Kids: educational platform for teaching road safety in kindergartens and elementary schools. The software was developed in association with Tri Soft Ltd. It uses a Kinect 1 (aka Kinect for Xbox 360) sensor as an interface device to simulate a virtual outdoor experience. The kids control their avatar’s movements in a natural way by the means of the Kinect’s skeletal tracking api. Using gestures, which require only a minimal learning curve, children can fully control their avatar. They can walk, turn, control the head look direction of their avatar and show cyclists’ signals (turning, stopping, etc.) by simply mimicking those gestures. The application presents an innovative way to teach kids road and traffic rules, road signs, safety tips and best practices without leaving the classroom. Furthermore, it offers a testing and scoring system to help teachers and instructors spot common mistakes and make sure the kids don’t repeat those mistakes on their way to school in the real world.
We’ve developed a second installment of this project. You might also be interested in checking out: Traffic Safety for Kids 2 and Traffic Safety for Kids VR
Key Features:
- Intuitive and natural user interface using body (skeletal) tracking with a Kinect sensor.
- Extensively tested and perfected gesture recognition.
- Gesture-controlled app menus and GUI.
- Traffic AI that obeys traffic rules and is aware of the avatar’s presence.
- Smart scoring system which is aware of the kids’ gestures (for instance looking left / right before crossing the road).
- High fame rates and great performance on moderate and even low-budget hardware systems.
Graphics: Todor Imreorov; Tri Soft Ltd
Technology partner & testing coordinator: Tri Soft Ltd
Client: Didasko