EKTA WOWFloor: Brand New Experience of Perception for Children

KYIV, Ukraine - May 19, 2014 - PRLog -- In February 2014 EKTA has widened its WOWFloor range. Now in addition to LED floors featuring pixel pitch of 24 and 32 mm, there is also 9, 12, 16 mm pixel pitch option available, which allows the more elaborate content to be displayed. Providing informative and high quality content makes an exciting solution children will never tire to play with – just single move and glossy surface of the floor can be covered with various bright images. Installed in game rooms of children’s educational facilities, interactive LED floor is an endless source of joy for children and a real catch for their teachers. So what is it that makes LED interactive floors so special?

Advantages

Game and entertaining function of a LED floor can be easily combined with educational, making it a learning platform for collaborative playing lessons. In fact, LED floor is a template in which different learning contents can be implemented as required, as well as the various graphical features. This kind of activity enables to organize collaborative games among children, which is an important advantage. As it was observed, children help each other a lot throughout collaborative games to increase their common score and to win. This kind of mutual support initiates communication and knowledge sharing among the players, helping them memorize the correct answers. Moreover, movement-based dynamic collaborative games might enhance children’s social skills. Simulation of social contexts throughout games creates potential speech stimulating situations, thus making children to practice their language skills. This kind of communications with the use of LED interactive floor creates new exciting experience for children.

The usage of LED floors in children’s rehabilitation activities is a special field of their appliance. Set of LED floors’ capabilities makes them an effective tool for recovering vital body functions of children, who demand a special approach in treatment and education. The efficiency of such usage was proved experimentally (http://www.interactivespaces.net/data/uploads/papers/55.pdf) by scientists from Aarhus University (Denmark). Moreover, interactive floors are an effective solution for rehabilitation of children with various musculoskeletal system impairments. Due to broad set of capabilities interactive floors can be used as a part of physiotherapy for challenged children motivating them to move and communicate with one another. This technology is applied with the purpose of stimulating child’s movement function while playing with bright images on the floor surface. Provided the dedicated content, LED interactive floors can be used for more complex therapies, such as development of communicative behavior, eye-hand coordination training, etc.

Technology

WOWFloor is easily assembled from square LED modules of 10-15 mm high measuring 0.773 x 0.773 mm.  The WOWFloor’s interactivity function is performed through the use of inbuilt capacity censors utilizing of which the visitor can interact with vast variety of visual images displayed on its surface. A multifunctional ERMAC control system enables to play back feature of different visual effects, graphic arts, and full-colour video. Shockproof glossy-surfaced modules guarantee safe service and operation. Having the IP55 level of protection, WOWFloor modules work in extreme conditions of dust and are protected against jets of water, which makes them suitable either for indoor and outdoor installation.

Company

The EKTA group of companies is one of the leading developers and manufacturers of LED video screens and business solutions based on LED technology in Eastern Europe. EKTA LED products are at the forefront of visual technology research and meet the European quality requirements. For more than twenty years in the AV-sector EKTA has delivered hundreds of successful projects in Ukraine and abroad. These include TV and broadcasting, corporate events, show business, architecture, sports, transport infrastructure, rental business.

Contacts

Alexandr Taranukhin

PR-manager of EKTA Company

Tel. +38 (044) 428-73-15, 16, 20

http://ekta-led.com/