My ideation process included understanding why critical language skills are so vital and how they are developed, creating an innovative and effective solution that will assist young learners, and delivering a final product that could potentially yield these desired results. It allowed me to devise and execute a plan for an augmented reality personal reader that would place a narrator on the pages of a physical book. This would require me to write a children’s book, secure illustrations, print and bind the book, and then build out the augmented reality application.

If the AR content only triggered by physical book pages presented to the child generates engagement and new words that are used in conversation, AR in this approach can be used to positively affect a child’s access to new vocabulary and development of critical language skills. I experiemented with this idea with just animations then decided to expand to include narration and game play.