Most museums in the UK turn out to be very children friendly with often dedicated areas for kids to enjoy the experience in their way: touching, playing.
One of the devices for children at Edinburgh Castle caught my attention because it reminded me of the painting game we though about while brainstorming. Here is what it looks like.
On a fixed tablet was displayed the UI below:
This is designed for all visitors, the bottom right feature is made for kids.
Taping on it leads to the game itself:
Touch the jester to choose an area to paint
When you touch the jester, the borders of the selected area are drawn:
Then touch a colour
The area is filled with Gold and some information about the colour is displayed:
Same process to colour the rest of the jester:
There is a little number of possible actions (Reset, Finish, Exit) and the focus is on the game. If I remove my spectacles I can still play with my short-sight owing to the presence of colours that clearly stand out from the background and simple shapes.
Simple GUI, children-friendly and entertaining.
Few children would read the texts, though.
The technical complexity of detecting where the user touches the screen and highlighting the corresponding area is here reduced by less accuracy. I guess hands are modeled as circles, the head might be an ellipse. Based on such simplification of touch areas we could integrate such a feature in our prototypes.
Last point, I witnessed very aggressive behaviours of children in their use of tactile devices. Some would even hit them without mercy when not responding, with surprising violence. I assume they would not act that way with tablets owned by their parents or themselves, but if Fotografiska were to lend tablets they should consider purchasing this sort of protection:
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