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ABOUT ANANSI

Anansi serves as a interactive storybook for children. This Unity based application is a unique way for young children to consume stories and bring them to life, while developing their vocabulary in English and other languages. 

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Anansi grew from the realization that oftentimes, parents may not have the time to teach their children a second language or read many books to them in their early years. 2015 statistics show that around 20% of parents read bedtime stories to their children[1]. The solution is to give children an interactive and fun-filled way to learn and grow on their own. 

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In searching for a simple and effective way to provide this, our team chose a combination of Unity, Google Cloud and Wix Code. These are typically used for gaming and hosting webpages, but we saw potential in using them together to provide a mobile and web app to achieve our goals. We also aimed to create something that would help aid the children of today, and improving language learning and literacy is an effective way to do so.

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Anansi was initially developed at Hack Harvard 2018. After the hackathon, our team plans to improve the app by testing it on groups of children in different age brackets between 2 and 12 years old. We plan to use that research to perfect the application, finalize our method of teaching children, and place it on the market for families to use to enable their children to bring stories to life.

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1.  Launch the Unity application through pressing anywhere on the home screen. Then, press the play button on the Unity application itself.

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2. Position the camera of your phone towards your target image, whether it is a caterpillar, emoji or anything in between.

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3. Anansi will use an image recognition API within Unity to detect the target image, project a 3D version of the image, and display the word associated with the image, with translation options into multiple languages.

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4. Continue repeating step 3 on different images to fully interact with your story and bring it to life.

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Download the App via Our Repository:

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https://github.com/dan1510123/hackharvard2018

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An Example Story

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