Towards Smart Edutainment Applications for Young Children. A Proposal

Abstract

Education, like the large majority of domains, has been impacted by the rapid development of communications and technology. What was perceived before as an ideal, i.e., the enhancement of the learning process through modern techniques, now it has been rapidly transformed into a mandatory requirement due to the current COVID-19 pandemic [13]. Edutainment applications are meant to support the learning activities of young children even in the absence of an in-person teacher. In this paper, we present our proposal for developing smart edutainment applications for young children that allow automatic identification of the child and adaptation of the interaction flow based on the child’s emotions.