Dwarfs Lernset für Kinder von Man Wai Wong

Das Design Dwarfs Lernset für Kinder von Man Wai Wong ist ein hoch angesehener Gewinner des sehr prestigeträchtigen 2020 A' Design Award in Eisen in der Wettbewerbskategorie Spielzeugdesign.

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Dwarfs Lernset für Kinder

von Man Wai Wong

Gewinner des A' Design Award in Eisen in der Kategorie Spielzeug

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Über Dwarfs Lernset für Kinder

Dwarfs ist ein Lernset für Kinder mit Autismus-Spektrum-Störung im Alter von sechs bis zwölf Jahren, die eine reguläre Schule besuchen. Das Set besteht aus einem Emoboard und kleinen Bausteinen, den Emobjects. Eine Sozialarbeiterin oder ein Sozialarbeiter begleitet das Spiel. Das Kind betrachtet ein Emobject, berührt es und legt es auf das Emoboard, das daraufhin einen Klang abspielt, der mit einer negativen Emotion verknüpft ist. Das Kind errät die Emotion und überprüft sie anhand der Antwortkarten; anschließend wählt es ein weiteres Emobject, das diese Emotion beruhigt. Sehen, Tasten und Hören werden genutzt, um den Ausdruck und die Steuerung von Emotionen zu unterstützen und die Kommunikation zu fördern.

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Über den A' Design Award in Eisen

Dwarfs Lernset für Kinder ist Gewinner des A' Design Award in Eisen, einer prestigeträchtigen Anerkennung für gute Designs, die die beruflichen und industriellen Anforderungen erfüllen, die an gut gestaltete Schöpfungen gestellt werden. Eisen-Gewinner zeigen großes Können, hohe Spezialisierung, fachkundiges Verständnis und die kreative Kapazität ihrer Schöpfer. Von Dwarfs Lernset für Kinder wird erwartet, dass es eine hochgeschätzte, bewunderte und geliebte Schöpfung ist, die praktisch und innovativ ist. Dieses mit dem A' Design Award in Eisen prämierte Design integriert bewährte Branchenverfahren und weist kompetente technische Merkmale in Verbindung mit Know-how und Talent auf. Dwarfs Lernset für Kinder wird für seine Gründlichkeit geschätzt und ist darauf ausgelegt, Verbesserungen der Lebensqualität zu liefern, die dazu beitragen, die Welt zu einem besseren Ort zu machen.

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Einzigartige Eigenschaften: There are two aspects that the ASD children are not good at, emotion and communication, the product aims to improve the children's social lives by training these two aspects.

The product targets 6 - 12 years old ASD children who are educated in ordinary schools. It involves a playing process with a social worker to educate the children about emotion expression and emotion control. In the process, visual, tactile and auditory sensation of the children will be triggered, so that the children will have more and deeper communication with the social worker instead of only verbal communication, eventually their social skills will be improved.
Abmessungen & Verpackung: Emoboard: Width 400mm x Depth 400mm x Height 283mm

Each Emobject: About Width 70mm x Depth 70mm x Height 70mm
Schlagwörter: autism, education, sensation, communication
Produktionstechnologie: In the design, RFID technology is added to complete the auditory stimulation. Also, digital programming of Arduino and Pure Data are also involved.
Designherausforderung: The most challenging issue in the project would be the technology part.

RFID technology and digital programming were definitely difficult for a product designer. Therefore, a former IT tutor in Hong Kong Polytechnic University was invited to help with these parts.
Forschung: A first hand research was conducted in 2018, included observation on some ASD children and an interview with a social worker who was working on some projects about ASD children. The research was to know about what kind of difficulties or issues that the ASD children and social worker face in their usual lives.

A first hand survey was conducted in 2019 in order to collect people's impression on different emotions for the design development. The participants were required to draw the colours and anything that could recall their different emotional memories. 30 people participated in the survey, included adults, children and ASD children.
Inspiration: Under Integrated Education in Hong Kong, some ASD students were being labelled because of their different behaviours, many of them just do not know how to express their feelings and emotions properly. Therefore, this became the starting point of the project.

In the design, different sensations were involved because I took tactile therapy as a reference. It inspired me to arrange stimulation of different sensations so that ASD children will be triggered to have more and deeper communication since some of them are not good at verbal communication.
Projektdauer: The project is a Product Design student final year project finished in Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The project started in September 2018 in Hong Kong and finished in May 2019 also in Hong Kong, half of the duration was for research stage, half was for design stage. It was exhibited at the Design Annual Show 2019 in Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Betriebsablauf: The gaming process is held by a social worker while an ASD child is the participant.

First, the child is required to pick up an Emobject that represents a negative emotion. He has to observe it by eyes, touch it by ears and put it on the Emoboard, the Emoboard will then produce a sound that represents that specific negative emotion. After the whole observation, the child will guess which negative emotion that the Emobject represents. He can check the answers with the answer cards.

After, the child is required to use the observation method mentioned above to guess another Emobject that represents a negative emotion, which can soothe the previous negative emotion. If his answer is correct, he can put the Emobject he chooses on the Emoboard, the sound of Emoboard will slowly change from the negative emotion to the positive one.

The gaming process is to educate ASD children about emotion expression and control.
Teammitglieder: Main designer: Man Wai Wong

Co-designer: Chi Wing Lee