Tom Glanville - Rhiannon Ramsay - Aaron Sullivan - Tom Woodman Technical Bid

Working alongside Aspire Psychologists on a pioneering new study Alternative to traditional teaching methods such as flash-cards iPad based game developed to aid teaching phonetics to young offenders Successful tuition results in greater employability and therefore reduces the re-offending rates of inmates Summary of the Brief The Solution An app developed for the iPad which incorporates an exploration mechanic with the kinaesthetic learning of phonetics

The client stipulated that the project needed to be developed for the iPad It was decided that in order to get 3D content on the iPad we would use the Flash platform (which was never officially supported by Apple) The project required Text-To-Speech (TTS) functionality in order to allow for flexible methods of teaching A work-around had to be created to allow the App to access the Google TTS functionality from the iPad Technologies Utilised – iPad and Google TTS API

As Away3D 3.6 doesn’t properly make use of hardware acceleration the game itself was heavily optimised during development The recent release of Adobe AIR 3.2 and the Stage3D API allowed for the Away3D 4.0 engine to be used Away3D 4.0 is still in beta with limited documentation and tutorial resources Since the release of AIR 3.2 we have successfully utilised it in our phonetic learning game and have achieved massive performance increases However the software PreFab3D, which is used to generate the exploratory environment, only supports Away3D 3.6. The plan for the future will be to be port this section to Away3D 4.0 once it becomes supported Technologies Utilised – Away3D 3.6 and 4.0 (beta)

Recent upgrades to Away3d 4.0 to utilise these technologies Cutting edge technologies that are still in development and with the few resources available has resulted in us breaking into new grounds Not only do we have an innovative solution, but we have come up with innovative methods by which the solution is implemented In Conclusion

Tom Glanville - Rhiannon Ramsay - Aaron Sullivan - Tom Woodman Technical Bid

Tom Glanville - Rhiannon Ramsay - Aaron Sullivan - Tom Woodman Technical Bid Presented by: Mr TB Glanville Mr Thomas T Woodman