AR Chinese Dictionary

Chinese Character in Childhood

AR中文字典 - 漢字小時候

Interaction Design & Cross-disciplinary Applied Design

2018 - 2022

It is an app designed for non-Chinese native speakers. Through the mobile device to learn Chinese characters with AR from the earliest Chinese character. The characteristics of the “pictogram” fully express the beauty of the Chinese character. The content of application is simple and easy to understand. There are more images and pictures replace the text descriptions, so that beginners who learn Chinese can easily get started. The character is presented in the image of AR, which not only learns the evolution of Chinese hieroglyphics, but also makes people interested in Chinese.

Different from the general dictionary app, you don’t need to type the words yourself, but the AR will automatically detect the word. Show the appearance of the Chinese character “early time” image and gives people an impression. Not only does people know the meaning of this Chinese character. Give user more “image” links instead of more text.

「漢字的小時候」是一款設計給非中文母語人士使用的APP，透過現在行動載具，將AR結合中文字的學習，以AR的方式還原中文字「小時候」圖像的樣子，抓住漢字「象形」的特色，充分呈現出漢字「如畫」的美感。內容簡單、易理解，更多的圖像取代文字說明，讓學習中文的初學者可以輕鬆上手。將字以AR的圖像呈現，不僅學習中文象形文字的演進，更讓人對於複雜的中文字產生興趣。

不同於一般字典APP需要自行輸入文字，以AR自動偵測文字的方式查詢。還原中文字「小時候」圖像的樣子，呈現中文字「象形」的特色。不只是讓人知道這個中文字的意思及發音，更讓人對字有圖像的印象。給予使用者更多的「圖像」連結，而不是用更多的文字說明。

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The advisor of the project is Chor-Kheng Lim who is the leader of CKfablab. I was the team member of CKfablab, and I joined this project as a project designer and interaction engineer. My role in the project is doing the AR system development, animation and graphic design.

此專案的主持人為林楚卿數位構築實驗室之林楚卿老師，我身為實驗室的一員，以專案設計師及互動工程師的角色參與這項專案，主要負責擴增實境系統開發、動畫及平面視覺設計。

• Check out the project in the CKfablab’s website here.
• The latest update: here - 2022/07
• Demo Video

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• Advisor | Chor-Kheng Lim (林楚卿)
• Team | CKfablab
• What I do | AR system development, Animation and graphic design
• Skills I use | Unity AR development with Vuforia

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Award

• 2018 元智大學VR/AR教育應用創作競賽 YZU VR/AR educational application competition, 銀獎

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Operation

When the character is detected, the virtual pictograph image shows up. In addition to English words and Chinese pronunciation, there are three information circles with “Category”, “Development” and “Relevance” can be selected.

In “Relevance”, it will show other characters related to this character for users to click and extend the learning. In “Development”, it will show the development of this character from the earliest to the current font. In “Category”, it will show the category of this Chinese character that you can query other categories then further select other categories to learn more different characters.

將APP開啟，對著想要查詢的字，系統便會開始偵測此中文字。此中文字的介面，除了有英文字及中文發音，上排三個分別有「分類 Category」、「演變 Development」、「關聯 Relevance」的資訊按鈕可以點選。

進入「關聯」頁面中，會出現與此字有關連性的字，供使用者點選查詢，並延伸學習。來到「演變」，則會顯示此字從最早的甲骨文到現在字體的演進過程。而在「分類」中，可以知道此字的分類，並能夠查詢其他的分類，進一步點選其他分類學習更多不同的中文字。

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Chinese characters Animation (selected)