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Project Overview
Challenge
Open-ended play is a novel approach toward children's play that can increase their creativity. This project was to design an open-ended toy that can increase children's social interaction while playing in different environments.
Objectives
Main research goal:
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Identify the emotional and behavioral elements that influence children's social interaction.
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Incorporating multisensory experience (different modalities) in an open-ended play.
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Main project goal
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enhance the social interaction experience for children around the age of 5 to 8 years old for both in and outdoor at primary school through an open-ended playing experience.
Tools
Strategic tools
Scenario-based design
Co-creation session and interviews
Design ethics & dilemmas in design for kids
Prototyping
Role
UX researcher, product designer, Ideator, Co-creation facilitator
Team
A group of 5 multinational students with the supervision of a professor at Twente University.
Duration
4 months
Design Process
Step 1
Research
Desktop research
Understanding the stakeholders
Design Req.
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Step 2
Scenario generation
Design requirements
Sympathy
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Step 3
Co-creation session
Brainstorming
Co-creation
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Step 4
Concept Ideation
Scenario generation
Ideation
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Step 5
Prototyping
User confrontation
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Test
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General plan of approach
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