28/12/2022 Ucraina (Україна)
“If you ever come across anything suspicious like this item, please do not pick it up, contact your local law e enforcement agency for assistance”.
BY HELEN CROWE
War-ravaged Ukraine is littered with explosives that have not yet gone off. According to the Ukrainian government, 80,000 km2 of the country has become “contaminated” with these dangerous munitions. These are sometimes hard to spot and pose a grave danger to residents. Especially for children. Dutch start-up Fectar has designed an Augmented Reality (AR) lesson that teaches children in a safe and interactive way to identify these unexploded munitions. It is the first time in the world that a lesson has been developed to raise children’s awareness of the dangers of these different types of mines. undefined“The real hero of this story is Charlie Valentine,” says Eugène Kuipers, CEO of Fectar. “He deals with the clearance of explosives internationally. And does that as a volunteer.” Valentine recently wrote another article about the bombs in Ukraine. “He was looking for a way to help residents learn about the dangers of explosives in a safe way. He already had the Fectar app and decided to create a 3D lesson for children in the war zone. When I saw that, I got in touch immediately.” Fectar then provided Valentine with technical support to develop the project further.
AR lessons
With one click on the Fectar app, a digital teacher appears in a classroom. She explains in Ukrainian the dangers of mines and what the various specimens of these explosives look like. While the app is in use, it measures what children focus on. This is how the learning process can be adjusted. The Ukrainian humanitarian aid organization Terra Pyra is going to roll out the training classes throughout Ukraine. The goal is to reach at least fifteen thousand ambassadors who can support the children while they take the virtual class. According to Kuipers, it was tricky to develop an educational tool about explosives. “There’s no such thing as a curriculum to teach children about this. Also, you don’t actually want to motivate kids to go looking for mines. That’s the opposite of what you want to achieve. We paid close attention to this and had a lot of conversations about it. So an extra feature has been added where a red area appears on the screen if children get too close.”
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