Interactive Learning Media of the Solar System for Children using Kinect

Abstract

Children education adheres to the emphasis of playing while learning or learning while playing. Playing using the body muscles can stimulate the body senses of a child and assist the child in exploring the surroundings. Children discover and learn new things or skills through playing a game. In creating an interactive learning experience to stimulate the brain of a child, a solar system is included in the formal education curriculum packed in an interactive media using Kinect where the children will play an active role in studying the solar system. The Kinect sensor detects 23 joints of a child to be used to move the 3-dimensional astronaut object directly on the body (coordinates mapper) and uses the background removal on the image to separate the background and the child pixels, so the child seems to be beside the planet. Based on the test results using the respondents of 50 children, it was shown that the system effectiveness level for the children is 86%.