Voxar Puzzle: An Innovative Hardware/Software Computer Vision Game for Children Development

This paper exposes how we united computervision technology and tangible user interfaces to conceive aninnovative product targeting children audience. Voxar Puzzle isa digital game in which children have to choose a puzzle froma virtual library and assemble it by manipulating physicalblocks. Furthermore, the process used for the development ofthe game platform had innovation in mind. A Blue Oceanstrategy was used to define the functionalities and features ofthe game platform, comparing it with relevant competitors.The final result was a prototype with a professional interfacethat was validated with children from a local public school.