The Next Generation of Edutainment Applications for Young Children—A Proposal

Adriana-Mihaela Guran, Grigoreta-Sofia Cojocar and Laura-Silvia Dioşan
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Adriana-Mihaela Guran: Department of Computer Science, Babeş-Bolyai University, 400085 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Grigoreta-Sofia Cojocar: Department of Computer Science, Babeş-Bolyai University, 400085 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Laura-Silvia Dioşan: Department of Computer Science, Babeş-Bolyai University, 400085 Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Mathematics, 2022, vol. 10, issue 4, 1-16

Abstract: Edutainment applications are a type of software that is designed to be entertaining while also being educational. In the current COVID-19 pandemic context, when children have to stay home due to the social distancing rules, edutainment applications for young children are more and more used each day. However, are these applications ready to take the place of an in-person teacher? In this paper, we propose a new generation of edutainment applications that are more suitable for preschoolers (aged 3–6 years old in our country) and closer to the in-person student–teacher interaction: emotions aware edutainment applications. We discuss the most important challenges that must be overcome in developing this kind of applications (i.e., recognizing children’s emotions, enhancing the edutainment application with emotion awareness, and adapting the interaction flow) and the first steps that we have taken for developing them.

Keywords: edutainment applications; emotions aware applications; adaptive learning; software architecture; services (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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