Design Of Children Pretend Game Based On Tangible Interaction

With the continuous development of economy,society and intelligent technology,children's toys are becoming more and more diversified and intelligent.The design of children's toys has also changed from the simple pursuit of interest and entertainment,to the pursuit of better immersion and value,such as steam toys,intelligent voice robots,interactive games and other innovative children's products continue to emerge.This kind of products on the market are more designed from the perspective of technology,children's characteristics,education and so on,without more detailed insight into children's behavior characteristics,which is the original intention of this study:observing children's behavior and designing children's toys that conform to children's behavior habits.In this paper,I chose pretend play as a popular entertainment behavior of early children,and based on the tangible interaction.The concept of pretend play is that children deliberately make up an unreal scene according to the real world,and make all kinds of unreal behaviors in this scene.Traditional role-playing games and professional simulation games belong to the category of pretend play.Tangible interaction refers to the way of digital information interaction controlled by physical entities.Based on the above two concepts,this paper studies as follows:(1)For the pretend game,we conducted theoretical research and market research,and put forward several features and core design elements of the pretend game.And chose the theory of tangible interaction,digitally expand the pretend game,conduct theoretical research on it and analyze how the tangible interaction supports the pretend game.(2)This study selected children aged 3-6 to conduct structured interviews and behavioral observations,and obtained first-hand information of pretend play.By analyzing and summarizing the results of interviews and observations,proposed how to design a successful pretend game and the design principles of each element.(3)Based on the principles of pretending to pretend game design and the content obtained from observation interviews,I put forward the design goals of pretending to be doctor games and carried out design practice.By designing various elements in the pretend game,the entire game system was constructed,and finally,I designed toy model,interface design and game prototype,and made design evaluationBased on the concept and technology of tangible interaction,this paper makes a digital expansion of pretend game,and puts forward the design points of every element of pretend game and the integration way of tangible interaction.Nowadays,intelligent toys are becoming more and more abundant and diversified.Games based on pretend games can better meet the behavior habits of early children,bring more immersive play experience for children,and help children gain more diversified values in games.