Research and Analysis on the Design of VR Game Based Safety Education System for Color Blind Children
Abstract
In daily life, children's safety education generally depends on visual information, but the safety tips based on color have obvious limitations for children with color vision disorders. This study focuses on the potential safety problems of children with color vision disorders due to limited color recognition in their daily life, and discusses how to build a safe, immersive and repeatable learning environment for risk recognition through the design of virtual reality and game mechanism. In terms of specific research, this study first combs and analyzes the typical risk situations of color-blind children in the family and public places and summarizes the core needs of color-blind children in information perception. On this basis, combined with the barrier free design principles and relevant standards, a de color centered design framework for hazard warning is proposed. The framework constructs a set of risk identification mechanism that can replace the color prompt through the information of shape, icon, dynamic change and sound. The design is expected to help color blind children establish color independent risk identification ability and improve safety awareness. In addition, this study also attempts to provide a new path of integrating XR technology for safety education for special children, so as to expand the application boundary of digital technology in the field of education.
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