Beelight: helping children discover colors

Despite the modern technology being used at preschool, how children learn about colors remains in a traditional, lacking of interaction way, teachers show a color object and make children know the color. We found that children are fascinated about exploring the world through the direct manipulation of physical objects. In this paper, we present Beelight, a novel digital manipulative aimed at preschool children, aged four and up, to improve children's color recognition ability. Cooperative inquiry and iterative prototype design are conducted during the project in order to evolve our prototype. Our Beelight system has a powerful ability to engage preschool children in active playing, which promotes their color cognitive development. Beelight is a great companion for young children to learn and discover colors. This study is a tangible interactive attempt of the preschool teaching system.