Research

From 11th of September to 18th of September we have been researching on the topic "Playgrounds".

We were digging in these points:

How children have fun in playgrounds?

What kind of games children play?

What did we used to play when we were young?

Which games based on technology are already out in the market?

Which is the state of research related to playgrounds, games for kids... ?

Based on those questions we found out some inspirational links:

Playgrounds

Playground games

What children like to do?

How to add multimodal feedback to cardboard boxes

Link 1 Link 2 Link 3 Link 4

Playgrounds for story-telling games

After all this reading and thinking it was time to brainstorm about the different ideas we had in our minds:

Hopscotch: we observed that kids like to jump, colors changing and sounds. So we came up with a solution based on an interactive floor where tiles could change color, emit sounds and interact with objects that kids should use to play on it. Finally we discarded this solution because there were more teams trying to do something similar.

Box: This idea consisted on giving kids objects where they could record sounds and other lighting objects. Kids should use them to configure some big boxes that would be used as spaceships. (We came up with this idea because all of us had a big box at some point in our childhood that we used as a fortress or a spaceship).

Wand: Following the idea of "magic" we thought that a magic game should have a wand in its core. So we were trying to bring up games with wands and spells. We discard it because it seemed pretty difficult to solve with this technology.

Tag: is one of the most famous games kids play in every playground. We think it is possible to do this idea and put some extra behaviors to this game and bring it to a next interaction level.