Interactive Soft Toys for Infants and Toddlers - Design Recommendations for Age-appropriate Play

Honauer, Michaela; Moorthy, Preetha; Hornecker, Eva

doi:10.1145/3311350.3347147

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“…The growing need for design education to adapt to new ways of living and making sense of the world and to involve various social groups in the design process increased the demand for unique, individual approaches as well. Over the past decade, courses designing for or involving various social groups and individuals into design practice have taken place in University College London (Rogers et al, 2014), Sense (Vogelpoel and Jarrold, 2014), The Open University (Giles and Linden, 2015), Newcastle University (Meissner et al, 2017), Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Honauer et al, 2019), among others. Also, the Estonian Academy of Arts has involved stakeholders of different backgrounds into the textile design curricula to explore the rich space of social design (Chen et al, 2016) from various angles.…”

Section: Children and Design Educationmentioning

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Children and design students practicing playful co-creation in a youth creativity lab

Kubinyi¹,

Naydenova²,

Kuusk³

2021

RAE

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is a designer focusing on children's roles within society, alternative educational systems, and the importance of free play. Her works include installations, workshops, services, products, and patterns. She holds a Master's in Child Culture Design from HDK-Valand (SE). She is currently based in Tallinn where she works as a designer in a youth creativity lab called VIVISTOP Telliskivi. She also teaches elective courses on social design and design for play at the Estonian Academy of Arts.Vera Naydenova has a background in psychology and previous teaching experience at the primary level. She obtained a master's degree in Social Design-Arts as Urban Innovation from the University of Applied Arts Vienna in 2016. She is currently employed at VIVISTOP Telliskivi and is responsible for creating content for workshops and guiding children's activities.

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Section: Children and Design Educationmentioning

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Children and design students practicing playful co-creation in a youth creativity lab

Kubinyi¹,

Naydenova²,

Kuusk³

2021

RAE

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“…Young children engage in all types of play with simple shapes and forms of objects (wooden blocks and plastic chains), soft materials (soft cloth and soft books), and child-safe toys that stimulate sensory-motor skills (rattles and standing walkers). In a study on designing soft-interactive toys for young children, Honauer et al (2019) Children need familiarity in actions at this stage to feel safe and comfortable (Honauer et al, 2019). Therefore, following these guidelines will allow for the development of sensory-motor capabilities integrated with ER strategies.…”

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Research Through Design for Anger Co-Emotion Regulation Learning in Young Children: A Soft Toy Design for Deep Breathing

Iskanderani

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For young children to develop emotional competence skills, they need their parents' support. However, techniques to support parents are critiqued for being resource-intensive, time-consuming, and lacking a focus on the home environment. This research aims to design playful interactions to help parents to teach neurotypical children ages 2-3 effective anger regulation strategies.For this study, following a pragmatic paradigm, a human-centred design methodology was selected to understand the needs of parents and their children. A range of qualitative methods, such as semi-structured interviews, were used to determine how to incorporate play into teaching young children emotion regulation skills. Research through design approach was used to experiment and generate design concepts and to evaluate with focus groups. Parents and experts (including child psychologists and occupational therapists) then tested the prototype through a usability study to validate the anticipated learning through play.Initial findings indicate that some parents' emotion regulation practises may encourage children to avoid their emotions. The study’s design criteria indicate that playful interaction should adopt a range of techniques, including metaphors, sensory regulation strategies, parent involvement, and physical objects. A scheme to teach young children to identify and manage emotions through playful interactions was therefore designed. This scheme incorporated facial expressions and physiological components, along with age-appropriate metaphors. Five strategies were constructed to help future designers develop playful interactions. The design strategies consider any emotion by looking for ways to express it facially and physically, to include a strategy for regulating the senses, to be broken down into simple steps, and to include sensory inputs that help the child engage in the play.This study provides a unique and innovative contribution to playful learning, emotion regulation research, and design. It follows recent findings confirming the importance of parent's involvement in their children’s emotion regulation learning. It also identifies key strategies for teaching emotional competence skills. The findings of this study have the potential to inform the design of future educational and playful interactions for emotional competence skills, as well as expand their application in the field of interaction design and children.

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FUNgi: An Interactive Toy Designed for Young Children Based on e-Textile Material

Guo,

2023

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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Interactive Soft Toys for Infants and Toddlers - Design Recommendations for Age-appropriate Play

Cited by 11 publications

References 33 publications

Children and design students practicing playful co-creation in a youth creativity lab

Children and design students practicing playful co-creation in a youth creativity lab

Research Through Design for Anger Co-Emotion Regulation Learning in Young Children: A Soft Toy Design for Deep Breathing

FUNgi: An Interactive Toy Designed for Young Children Based on e-Textile Material

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