🎨 Enhancing Creativity & Problem-Solving in Kids with Animation! 🚀

In this paper, we describe the design, development, and preliminary evaluation of a novel animation tool for smartphones and tablets. Our goal? To enhance creativity and problem-solving skills among novice users—mainly young children.

🖍️ How It Works:
✅ Kids draw objects with markers and crayons on paper.
✅ They import drawings into the app by taking a photo.
✅ They design animation scenes by selecting parts of characters and applying pre-set animations.
✅ The app smoothly animates the selected parts while maintaining a natural transition.

🔬 Early Findings: Young children loved using the tool and would recommend it to their friends!

📄 Read the Full Paper:
🔗https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3459926.3464748

📌 Citation:
Farzinnejad, F., Habibi, J., & Baghaei, N. (2021, June).
Playbook: An Animation-Based Game for Improving Children’s Creativity and Problem Solving Skills.
In Companion of the 2021 ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS ’21), pp. 12-16.
🔗 DOI: 10.1145/3459926.3464748

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