The effectiveness of using participatory design with augmented reality technology to develop innovative thinking among children

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Technological progress and successive innovations have provided modern capabilities and techniques that contribute to the promotion and development of innovative thinking for children.

During the recent period, interest has been directed towards the application of these technologies in buildings, children's spaces and various fields of learning.

Augmented Reality (AR) technology has become popular recently.

It is one of the virtual reality types.

(AR) aims to add virtual data using the computer on real environment for the production of a composite display resulting from the mixture of the real scene with the virtual scene that was produced by the computer, as this mixture helps to add and enhance the real scene with information.

The relationship between child and technology needs to be (cognitively) consolidated, and to integrate modern technology and employing it in the children's spaces.

The research was concerned to provide and trying to exploit modern technology and (AR) technology in developing the child's creative and imaginative abilities and contributing to the exploitation of this technology in the development of educational methods, innovation, production shapes and graphics.

Where (AR) technology was able to change the child's thinking, visions for shapes and things around, it helped develop the child's innovative thinking by adding new virtual dimensions among real dimensions and made them more interactive.

This technology helped to understand and perceive information, shapes and drawings around children and created a kind of interaction through providing a stereoscopic and electronically manufactured imaginative environment.

That makes it more influential in the hearts of children and more inspiring realism.

The interactive feature in this reality has helped to develop innovative and creative thinking skills for children, in addition to the latent learning skills.