A Brief History On Quick Response Codes

QR codes are extremely common in Japan, and it is also here where they originated. A subsidiary company of Toyota created them in order to mark vehicle parts that they created. It was created in 1994 and is called a two-dimensional barcode or matrix barcode that can be decoded at high speeds, hence the name Quick Response.

The data that can be stored in these codes is wider than the conventional one dimensional barcodes which are the ones that you will find on the back of your products when you go shopping. They can store web addresses, which is what we are going to use it for in our project, images, text and a whole host of other media.

"QR-Codes first hit mainstream when they were initially used for tracking parts by vehicle manufacturers. After a while, companies began to see the scope for where QR-Codes could be used elsewhere within the world. The most commercial use for QR-Codes is in the telecommunications industry where the mobile phone seems to be the biggest driver of their popularity." - Courtesy of mobile-barcodes.com

A great website that explains the use of QR codes in an interesting way is this slideshow presentation.

QR codes is still a very new idea in the West that hasn't been fully explored so if this project could help children understand about phobias and also learn how to use a new technology that will no doubt take off further in the future, then I think we will have nailed this brief perfectly.