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Geography is a broad subject, and maps are essential tools for learning geography. It is necessary to educate children about geography and maps at an early age. Digital educational tools play an increasingly important role in children’s education. However, few studies focus on digital map design for children conforming to their cognitive abilities. Inspired by that, we propose PuzMap, a novel puzzle map, which facilitated with various sensory channels, visual, auditory, tactual, and olfactory. It can create specific experiences when it is manipulated. PuzMap delivers knowledge of geographical distribution to children. It also introduces the concept of ocean current and its movement principle through the multi-sensory approach, which is rarely mentioned before. When finishing the puzzle map, children can scan the pattern on each distribution module to enjoy the AR patterns about this area. In this paper, we detail the system design of PuzMap and present the design principles of children map. We also conducted studies to explore our system’s usability. The results showed that PuzMap could help children learn geography knowledge, and it is engaged for children to play.
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The authors thanks all the reviewers for providing valuable insights and suggestions that have helped in substantially improving this paper, as well as all volunteers for general support. This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No 51675476).
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Wang, J., Liu, L., Huang, M., Jiang, W., Yao, C., Ying, F. (2020). PuzMap: Designing a Multi-sensory Puzzle Map for Children to Learn Geography. In: Streitz, N., Konomi, S. (eds) Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12203. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50344-4_49
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