Applying a 3D range sensor to enhance children's experience of art

This study proposed a system that uses children's imagination to boost their appreciation of art. Since pretend play improves children's imagination, we propose a system using pretended play to increase art appreciation in a way children find interesting. With the proposed system, a player can interact with projections of animal footprints that respond to human movement. The system, which we have developed and explain in this paper, measures the position of the player using a Kinect sensor and the footprints change based on the position of the player. In this manuscript, we describe the outline of the under developing system. In addition, we demonstrate using experiments that the Kinect sensor can be applied to accurately recognize the body positions of users. This is the first step towards realizing the proposed art system for children.