In this paper, we present TanCreator, a tangible authoring tool which facilitates children to create games based on Augmented Reality (AR) and sensor technologies. Combining AR elements and sensors in games bridges virtual world with realistic surroundings closely together, providing more joyful and intuitive creating experiment for children. Children could boost their creativity via creating their own maze games in daily life with paper tokens and sensors. It is also great training for children’s motor skills such as hand-eye coordination.

Cite this work: Qiao Jin, Danli Wang, and Fang Sun. 2018. TanCreator: A Tangible Tool for Children to Create Augmented Reality Games. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference and 2018 International Symposium on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Wearable Computers (UbiComp ’18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 82–85. https://doi.org/10.1145/3267305.3267603