Nanhua University runs a university social responsibility (USR) programme, "Yunshui Book Cart on the Move", that takes AR interactive picture books, VR and digital creation activities into kindergartens in Chiayi, Taiwan. The programme aims to widen multi-sensory learning for young children, and the university's president describes it as a way to turn the university's cross-disciplinary expertise into learning content for children in areas with scarce educational resources.
The team has combined early childhood education, music, design and digital technology, and added robot applications this year (2026). The source does not say when the programme began.
Recent sessions
- The team showed AR picture books, VR and interactive robots at a parent-teacher meeting at Dongrong Elementary School.
- On 19 September the team visited Xikou Township Public Kindergarten, inviting children and parents to try AR picture books and VR together. Children were especially surprised to see their own drawings turned into a virtual world.
Equipment
Photos from the programme show a child using a white standalone VR headset with a hand controller, and a child pointing a smartphone at a picture book for the AR experience. The headset model is not identified in the source.
Aims
Nanhua's Vice President Lai Shu-ling says technology is meant as a key to children's interest in learning: starting from a picture book and extending to AR, VR, robots and creative activities, so that children step into stories, operate them and go on to create their own.
The source is a press report of the programme's recent activities; it gives no attendance figures or learning outcomes.
