New Type of Pop Up Book

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Our Mission

私たちの使命

We create bilingual books that apply augmented reality (AR) software to promote language learning. These books encourage children to understand the diversity of cultures, to appreciate the importance of sharing, to develop their curiosity, and to cultivate the ability of communicate.

Story Book

Encourage vocabulary building

Help children to learn both Japanese and English using audio and video support

Help children to build confidence through learning

Enhancing children’s awareness by exposing them to a variety of cultures

Cultivate curiosity through colorful stories

Use AR to facilitate a new kind of reading experience

Our Goals

ねらい

We harness the latest educational technology to help children to learn about culture and traditions. We will continue to incorporate the latest develops in educational technologies to provide up to date learning resources for children, parents, and educators.

Coloring Book

We are pleased to introduce a new kind of coloring book designed to encourage creativity.

With this AR coloring book, children can color in a page and watch their creations come to life!

Colorful creations can be rendered on computers or handheld electronic devices in 3D.

Use original colorful creations as stickers (emoji) to customize your messages!

Team Members

メンバー

We apply AR technology to picture books to provide new possibilities for young readers and parents. These AR books allow young children to listen to a story while learning to read, and they can choose to listen in either English or Japanese. The AR technology also allows readers to watch videos related to the story, bringing characters and scenarios from the page to life. We developed this project with the idea to make a new type of pop up book. We use a convenient AR application available on smartphones and tablets, using both the written word and audio visual materials to develop reading skills and to facilitate language learning in a way that is fun for children and parents.

Kyoko Lyons
Founder

I am a published author, an editor, and a recognized authority on patient’s rights and best practices for navigating the Japanese health care system. In addition to my day job working in publication in Tokyo, I have also been awarded first prize for screen and pitch writing by the Motion Picture Association’s film workshop in 2015.

My work was the only Japanese production to be nominated to participate in a Hollywood TV planning pitch practical seminar held in February 2017, where participants included Academy Award winner Glen Anderson. My creative work draws on my experience as an established publisher in the field of consumer advocacy and my newfound international success as an author of fiction. My current project combines these interests into a form of storytelling that relates cutting edge scientific issues in narratives that appeal to the emotions and inspire thought.

In my day job, I work for an IT company harnessing for practical and creative uses the data drawn from scientific measurements of brain waves and biometric information. I am chief researcher and also in charge of business development.

In this capacity, at the first AI EXPO, my team and I collaborated with MacCan Erickson and OneJapan. We developed a program we dubbed the “Creative Flower,” which relies on brain wave measuring technology to produce a visual representation of a person’s mental activity in real time. The resulting image creates a visual representation of a person’s mental activity, and the resulting “flower” opens and closes its petals to reflect the flow of thoughts. This software was well received as an innovative model for harnessing biometric information for creative purposes. littlesoftware

My current research project combines cutting edge VR technology with biometric analysis of brain waves to produce a new level of interactive technology. This work aims to develop practical uses of biometric information in the field of VR by enabling responsive virtual reality narratives that adapt to users’ emotions and thoughts to render a new level of immersive educational and entertainment experiences.

Itsumi Fukuda
Author

Natalia La Fay
Artist

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Thank you very much for your interest in our project. For questions and other inquiries please feel free to contact us directly.