The Roads and Transport Authority has launched smart services within the application of the electronic safety magazine, which includes a number of interactive programs, including technology to enhance virtual reality, and interesting games concerned with awareness traffic messages, as part of its continuous efforts to provide smart content related to traffic safety for users of the magazine among children between 4 To 14 years old.
She said that since the launch of the first phase of the "Salama" application project in mid of 2018, efforts of the Smart Services Department in the institutional technical support services sector and the Traffic Department of the Traffic and Roads Corporation have been unified to develop an entirely new application using the latest technologies and designs that include interactive programs that enhance virtual reality Smart and interesting games that include educational messages for children, in addition to a special section for audio stories in Arabic and English and a special section for educational films, in addition to a new electronic window that enables children to compose and draw stories from their imagination. These stories can also be published on the app after It is audited and approved by the authority's specialists and these characteristics are considered the first of its kind in government applications.
She explained that the technology of promoting virtual reality is a link between the smart application and the traffic elements drawn in books or on the street, where the application is running and then directing the camera available in the mobile phone to the traffic symbol, to show a cartoon character who provides traffic safety tips, confirming This innovative method aims to instill a culture of traffic safety in an attractive way in a form that combines interesting entertainment and targeted awareness, as the age groups ranging from 4-14 years can be attracted to the goals pursued in this method away from traditional means.
The authority noted that the project outputs include a redesign, implementation and addition of new features for the magazine "Salama", and making them available on various types of smartphones, tablets and mobile devices, and includes the following features: Salama Digital Magazine, which is an attractive display through displaying magazines inside a bookcase With a new interactive program to easily read and browse magazines to provide an enjoyable reading experience for children, as well as the feature “Tales”, which is a new electronic window that enables children to compose and draw stories from their imagination so that those stories are published on the application after being audited and approved, as well as “children's games” To "It is a set of games directed to children that include puzzles and I need them including" Color with me "," Missing Words "," Five Differences "and" Talking animated picture book "which is concerned with turning a simple page in a magazine into an audio story with animated language Arabic or English, and this feature allows the possibility of providing targeted content for children of determination.
The authority emphasized that it is working according to clear strategic plans aimed at keeping up with our rational leadership directives to make Dubai among the global modern cities that transform smart services from ambitions to embody reality, achieving luxury and quality of life.