Abstract
Background: The limited number of web and child applications becomes a challenge especially providing web or education app that can be a source of information referral to help the school task, especially for the needs of children in Indonesia.Objective: This study answers the challenge by designing a special encyclopedia for children called Anapedia, an open web-based encyclopedia for children.Methods: Anapedia designed for the quality of content for education and design for entertainment that is suitable for children's needs by considering the children cognitive abilities.Results: The features are full-color, simple layout, large font sizes, and simple language with illustrated drawing to make it easier. For maintain the quality of the articles, this app involves the educator as a contributor who have better understand the characteristic and need of school-level children. This also provided a search feature based on keywords using information retrieval system with spell checker.Conclusion: The results of testing result with Black Box Method, it can be concluded that the entire system being tested has been functioning properly in accordance with expectations.
Highlights
Children are age groups that need a great deal of attention in terms of education
Anapedia is designed with attention to the quality of content for education and design for entertainment that is suitable for children's needs by considering the cognitive abilities of very limited children
The Anapedia web app is an encyclopedia application designed for children especially for children aged 7-12 years
Summary
Children are age groups that need a great deal of attention in terms of education. From the release of the Ministry of Education and Culture Indonesia in 2017 revealed that the number of school-aged children ranging from kindergarten to senior high school level has more than 49 million students [1]. The limited number of web and child applications becomes a challenge especially providing web or education app that can be a source of information referral to help the school task, especially for the needs of children in Indonesia. For maintain the quality of the articles, this app involves the educator as a contributor who have better understand the characteristic and need of school-level children. This provided a search feature based on keywords using information retrieval system with spell checker. Conclusion: The results of testing result with Black Box Method, it can be concluded that the entire system being tested has been functioning properly in accordance with expectations
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