The methodological involvement of the emotional design and cognitive ergonomics as a tool in the development of children products

Abstract

To demonstrate the relationship between design and emotional development for kids, this article offers an initial approach about the definition and historical aspects of emotion in product development, citing the main authors of this issue. Based the field research conducted with children from 2 to 6 years of age, was also describes the basic ideas of Piaget in the child psychology and pre-operational stage (age group studied) and the significance of children's toys from the perspective of Vigostsky. Using this theoretical framework and results of field research, we can infer some emotional design as advocated by the producers of positive affect on humans and its relationship with the child's development and choices of their toys.

Design Considerations for Therapeutic Devices - An Investigation of Pre-Schoolers’ Preferences for an Artefact’s Basic Characteristics

“…Research in the study of emotions of children utilise Piaget's theory which explains children's cognitive development (Correia et al, 2012;Šramová, 2017;Yeh, Jewell and Zamudio, 2018). Piaget's theory states that children go through four increasingly adaptive stages and depending on the level they are, information is treated and categorised differently.…”

“…Furthermore, toys having a preferred sensory attribute increased the number of times they were selected (Dicarlo, 2004). In the field of consumer products, by the age of 2, children were able to express their preference on colour (red, blue, yellow), form (geometric, organic) and texture (glossy, rough, soft) characteristics in order to establish their predominant preferences (Correia et al, 2012). However, these results did not explore how gender and age differences influenced their preferences and the number of attributes was limited to just three.…”

“…ICED19 Colour: Black/natural vs Red vs Blue vs Green vs Purple -Colour plays a major role in children's selection, especially if they already formed gender-schemas. Correia et al (2012) reported that bright colours stimulate positive characteristics. Instead of choosing the primary colours, it was decided to replace the yellow variant with the green one due to the low contrast with the beak and feet.…”

“…Texture: Smooth vs Patterned vs Coarse -Surface texture is a haptic perception that can influence children's preference. Colour: Black/natural vs Red vs Blue vs Green vs Purple -Colour plays a major role in children's selection, especially if they already formed gender-schemas Correia et al (2012). reported that bright colours stimulate positive characteristics.…”

Reconocimiento multimodal del estado emocional de un niño en un contexto educativo

“…El grupo experimental estuvo compuesto por niños con edades entre 10 y 13 años. Este rango de edad se escogió con base a la teoría del desarrollo cognitivo de Jean Piaget, coincidiendo con la frontera en que se han desarrollado habilidades analíticas concretas e inicia el desarrollo del análisis abstracto en el niño [36], [37]. La Figura 4 muestra las etapas del modelo de Piaget y la ubicación del rango de edad seleccionado para los niños que hacen parte del grupo experimental.…”