Learning safety knowledge by cartoon animation for Chinese children

Cartoon animation is a good tool for safety education of children; it can attract children to learn abstract safety regulations in a vivid manner. In this paper, according to the psychological characteristic of children and constructivism learning theory, a method of developing cartoon animation on safety education of Chinese children is presented. The design of cartoon's scenario, character's emotion and interaction are introduced. The scene in these cartoon animation are based on Gibson's theory of affordances and all the signs on objects are easily distinguished. A finite state machine is used for expressing the emotion state of a cartoon character, and NPC (non player character) is introduced to arouse the interest of a child user.