Overview
In this century, children can gain knowledge from school as well as self-learning at home with the assistance of their parents or some tools. Traditional tools include story books, word cards, puzzles, and so on. Children are now learning with traditional tools together with modern high-tech tools such as tablet to improve the effectiveness.
Parents now prefer to earn more money and give a better living environment to their children. Therefore, parents are focusing more on their work. They are too busy and tired to read story books with children after a whole day of work. Besides, they usually hire a maid to take care of the children and send them to some classes like play group or abacus class. Most parents would like to teach their children to read and write outside classes or even before their kindergarten start. Therefore, a platform is provided in this project for children to learn and for parents to monitor and communicate with their children. To arouse children’s interests in learning, robot is a good option. Children can be attracted by the robot and interacted with robot during their learning. There are quite a lot of choices in the market now; however, we aim to provide parents a platform that can monitor the learning progress of their children in order to have a better understanding of them. Everything from watching television to talking to friends can be quite difficult for the hearing impaired, not to mention learning. Thus, we hope to build a system which can be used by them as well. With the aid of robot and tablet, we hope children can improve their reading and writing skills as well as gain knowledge in mathematics. We also hope parents can have close connection with their children through our monitoring and communication features. Recently, there are android applications which help children to learn and help the Deaf and Blind to use a smartphone or tablet. For applications with learning purpose, it is usually games such as crossword puzzle. For applications designed for the Deaf and Blind, it is usually a converter of speech and text or media player specially designed for them. |