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With interactive function I want to support the balance between childcare and child rearing
Nice to meet you. On April 28 (Fri.), Maria Project, Inc. upgraded its educational application "KIKASETE" from a horizontal screen to a vertical screen to improve the ease of reading picture books. The screen has been changed from landscape to portrait to make it easier to read picture books.
According to "Tamahiyo Pregnancy and Childbirth White Paper 2023" by Benesse Corporation, about 90% of mothers answered that they "feel fulfilled" and "enjoy and feel happy" raising children, while 76.8% answered that Japanese society "makes it difficult to give birth and raise children," with high percentages of "economic and financial burden and "Lack of understanding and support from society" as reasons. With the birthrate declining rapidly, there is a need for initiatives and services that cater to those involved in childrearing.
We developed KIKASETE, an educational application based on picture books, in 2019.After the app reads a picture book to the child, it asks questions to elicit feelings and thoughts, and has an interactive function that allows the child to speak up.. Parents are able to communicate with their children by touching their ideas while doing housework or their own things at the side of their children who are playing the application. (20,000 downloads, 95.8% of respondents "felt their children's growth" after one month of continuous use) The number of picture books has increased, and we have received comments such as "I want my favorite picture book to come to a place where I can easily find it. With this renovationThe "Hondana" is now in the form of an illustrated book, making it easy to select a picture book.The company has also been working to improve the quality of its products and services. Also,Picture books can now be displayed in large size, bringing a sense of immersion into the world of the picture book.The company is now in a position to
The representative of KIKASETE is a mother juggling work and raising five children, and her desire for "parents to enjoy interacting with picture books with their children" was the impetus for the creation of "KIKASETE. Through this update, we hope that "KIKASETE" will help those raising children by ensuring that parents and children have time to communicate with each other through picture books.
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Name: KIKASETE
◆ Contents: Intellectual education application to develop children's ability to think and communicate
Ages 4 years old to early elementary school students Download and use Currently free
Picture book reading and dialogue functions to elicit children's ideas
Update 4/28 (Fri.)
◆HP:https://kikasete.mariaproject.com/
