Ideas From Brainstorming session

Interactive GUI Nutrition Monitor

The system would allow a child to add food to a tray, which would analyze the contents of the food and display nutritional data in the form of graphs on a nearby screen.

• Children often make poor eating choices and the system can be seen as a way to teach children on how to make better eating choices.
  
  
• The amount of food the child places on the tray can teach children about portion sizes.
  
  
• Can be used to compare different foods.
  
  

Source: http://www.nutricoach.net/images/nutribase%20screen1.jpg

Baby monitor for children in cars

Allows a baby to see the parents/driver's face on a screen in front of them to reassure them that they are close by.

• Two cameras used, one facing the baby and one facing the driver
  
  
• Two screens used, one facing the baby and one facing the driver
  
  
• System can be seen as a way to reassure baby that their parents are close by. Particularly useful if baby is upset etc and the driver/parent is stuck in traffic
  
  
• Primarily for babies aged 3 under
  
  

Source: http://www.thenewparentsguide.com/images/OSA%20auto%20videomonitor.jpg

Robot Teaching Assistant

This will allow children to be taught by a robotic teaching assistant based on Honda’s ASIMO robot.

• Have a humanoid robot interact with groups of children in the playground and in the classroom
  
  
• Be able use the humanoid robot as a way to teach young children how to cross the road and even assist disabled children
  
  
• Be able use the android to walk young children to a destination safely, for example, to their school bus.
  
  
• Children are interested in interacting with innovative and ‘cool’ things.
  
  

Source: http://www.diseno-art.com/images/ASIMO_high-res.jpg

Source: http://www.honda.co.jp/ASIMO/newmodel/images/asimo.jpg

Children anti-gravity chamber

This will allow children to undertake a different form of physical activity and allow them to experience weightlessness.

• Children are interested in Space; this will allow them to experience what astronaut’s experience
  
  
• Sides of chamber would have cushion layer similar to that of a bouncy castles
  
  
• Would allow groups of children and individuals to enter the chamber
  
  
• Can be used as an educational tool for kids in primary school when they attend physical exercise lessons
  
  

Source: http://www.sfasu.edu/pubaffairs/SFA-in-news/Palestine-05-26-04_photo.jpg

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