Abstract—The Kinect sensor is a device that can recognize
the user’s hands and body movements without controllers or
marks. Although Kinect was originally designed for the Xbox 360
game console, programming tools for PC appeared shortly after
its release. As a result, many papers and applications explore
Kinect’s technology nowadays, in areas such as robotics and
medicine. Kinect can be specially useful for pre-school education,
since the human-computer interaction with hand movements
supports the concept of hand-eye coordination, an ability to
be developed during the pre-school age. This work presents a
prototype that uses Kinect and includes educational games for
pre-schoolers. This prototype was tested in an educational center
for pre-school children, and was evaluated positively. From this
experience we concluded that these kind of tools has a high
potential in the educational field, whereas there is a need of
interaction standards to aid the development of such kind of
applications.