Design and implementation of touch screen-based functional game contents for early childhood education

Recently, the game targeted the children are spotlighted and taken upturn in the market. Many games utilizing the characters derived from the famous animation or movie are mainly being developed and the game industry is being developed everyday by the development of smartphone and interface technology. In this paper, the cognitive development of the children was understood and the requirements possessed by the game for children were examined based on the importance of the children's plays. Based on this premise, the purposes of this study were; (a) building the new concept of education and play environment for the enhancement of concentration, art, ego expression, relationship with others; (b) adaptation by designing and developing the big board to enhance the creativity and the independence based on the psychology and the demands of the infant, and (c) designing and implementing the contents utilizing the computer convergence technology. Future study will consist of experiencing the functional game contents produced for the daycare centers and evaluating their usability.