2. Educational Application
Small steps on a long way
Appolinary Zakharov, Alexei Popov, Mikhail Medvedev, Irina Grishina,
Gennady Dobrynin, Michael Kogan, Vsevolod Pankov, Danila Ivanov,
Vladimir Molodkina Viatcheslav Nechvolodov, Ruslan Iskandarov and
students of grammar school № 1290, Moscow.

3. Step One. An Idea
Today mobile technology progressively penetrate to our
every-day lives.
Children are able to use modern gadgets before they can
walk.
It was decided to
create an educational
app that will not only
entertain but also
teach.
We start with a simple
thing - the
multiplication table.

4. Step Two. Image.
By reference to the wishes of children there have been
created many concept art images of a teacher.

5. Step Two. Image.
As a result we got the
image that we know.
By interviewing
children in the focus
groups the name of
our virtual teacher
was chosen. Ms.
Agness Weiss.

6. Step Three. Implementation.
At this stage, we created 3D-model of the character,
recorded all required phrases and created the application
code.

7. Step Three. Implementation.
Since the main target audience of the project are the
children, the emphasis was placed on simplicity of
operation. For this we used the speech recognition
technology. No extra buttons - just the voice!

8. Step Three. Implementation.
Parallel with the preparation for release we launched focus
groups in social networks. For various age groups we
created a lot of unique content which can significantly
expand a person’s outlook.

9. Step Three. Implementation.
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Eighteen month of hard, continuous work;
Two teams of developers and more than 20 people in outsourcing
The voice was recorded over six times.
More than 120 character animations
Initial size of the application was about 1 Gb
In the course of character’ 3D model optimization we have reduced
the number of bones from 270 to 70;
7. Geography of the project participants: Moscow,
Novorossiysk, St. Petersburg,
Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Ireland,
America;
8. Three times we faced with problems
which put the realization in question;
9. Budget - what is made with love
can’t be measured with money!

10. Step Four. Release.
It was decided to release the Application in April 2013.
It was important to see how the audience will meet our
"Teacher."

11. Step Four. Release.
Reviews of the application speak for themselves.

12. Step Four. Release.
On social network sites competitions are held in which
children show their talents of writers and artists. Winners
meet with Ms. Agness Weiss and receive prizes.

13. Step. Five. Future Plans.
Especially for the new academic
year, we have updated the
application. In the future we plan
to
expand the subjects studied. We
will not be limited to
mathematics. Next in line are
Russian language, geography,
history and much more! We want
Ms. Agness Weiss to become a
real friend to children, a friend
who will not just entertains, but
also helps to get education!