School Simulator Ohun Elo Ìdánilẹ́kọ̀ọ́ Ilé-Ìwé Awọn Ọmọ Kékeré by Xinyue Liu, Huicong Hu and Shumeng Hou

School Simulator Ohun Elo Ìdánilẹ́kọ̀ọ́ Ilé-Ìwé Awọn Ọmọ Kékeré by Xinyue Liu, Huicong Hu and Shumeng Hou is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Idẹ A' Design Award in Àpẹẹrẹ Ẹ̀kọ́, Ohun-èlò Ìkọ́ni àti Àkóónú Ìdánilẹ́kọ̀ọ́ Competition Category.

IdẹẸ̀kọ́· 2022

School Simulator Ohun Elo Ìdánilẹ́kọ̀ọ́ Ilé-Ìwé Awọn Ọmọ Kékeré

by Xinyue Liu, Huicong Hu and Shumeng Hou

Client: Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen

Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Idẹ A' Design Award Winner in Ẹ̀kọ́ Category

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The Design

About School Simulator Ohun Elo Ìdánilẹ́kọ̀ọ́ Ilé-Ìwé Awọn Ọmọ Kékeré

Ohun Elo Afarawe Ile-Iwe jẹ́ ohun elo alágbèéká tí a ṣe láti ṣe àtìlẹ́yìn fún ìdánilẹ́kọ̀ọ́ àwọn ọmọ kékeré tí ó ní àìlera autism spectrum. Ohun elo yìí wà fún àwọn òbí, olùkọ́, àti oníṣègùn ìtọ́jú. Àwọn ẹ̀kọ́ ìdánilẹ́kọ̀ọ́ náà bo àwọn ẹ̀ka mẹ́rin: ìtọ́jú ara ẹni, òye ìtọ́ni, ìbáṣepọ̀ láàrin ènìyàn, àti ọjọ́ kan ní ilé-ìwé. Àwọn ọmọdé ń ṣe àṣàyàn, wọ́n ń bá àwọn ohun-ìṣàpẹẹrẹ (cartoon) sọ̀rọ̀, wọ́n sì ń fi ìrísí ojú hàn, àwọn ìmọ̀-ẹ̀rọ ìdámọ̀ràn sì ń fún wọn ní ìdáhùn kíákíá. Àwọn ìdáhùn tí kò tọ́ ni a ń kọ sílẹ̀, a sì ń tún un ṣe títí tí yóò fi tọ́. Apá kan wà fún àwùjọ tí ó gba àwọn àgbàlagbà láàyè láti pín ìrírí wọn.

The Recognition

About the Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Idẹ A' Design Award

School Simulator Ohun Elo Ìdánilẹ́kọ̀ọ́ Ilé-Ìwé Awọn Ọmọ Kékeré jẹ́ olùborí Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Idẹ A' Design Award, ìdánimọ̀ olókìkí gan-an tí a fún àwọn àwòṣe tó tayọ tí wọ́n yàtọ̀ nípasẹ̀ ìṣẹ̀dá, àrékérekè àti ọgbọ́n inú. Àwọn olùborí Idẹ jẹ́ àwọn ohun èlò tó ní ìjáfáfá gan-an tí wọ́n sì ní ìṣẹ̀dá tó yani lẹ́nu tí wọ́n ń ṣe ẹ̀rí ìrírí gbígbòòrò, ìrònú àti ọgbọ́n àwọn olùṣàwòṣe wọn. A retí pé School Simulator Ohun Elo Ìdánilẹ́kọ̀ọ́ Ilé-Ìwé Awọn Ọmọ Kékeré yóò jẹ́ ohun tí a kà sí gidigidi, tí a gbóríyìn fún tí a sì nífẹ̀ẹ́, tó jẹ́ ti ọ̀jáfáfá lọ́nà tó ṣe pàtàkì tó sì ní ìmúṣẹ̀dá tuntun. Àwòṣe tó borí Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Idẹ A' Design Award yìí ń kó àwọn ọ̀nà tó dára jùlọ nínú iṣẹ́ ọnà, sáyẹ́ǹsì, àwòṣe àti ìmọ̀-ẹ̀rọ jọ, ó sì tayọ nítorí àfiyèsí rẹ̀ sí àwọn àlàyé kékeré. School Simulator Ohun Elo Ìdánilẹ́kọ̀ọ́ Ilé-Ìwé Awọn Ọmọ Kékeré ń tẹ́ àwọn ohun tí a nílò lọ́rùn lọ́nà àgbàyanu, ó ń fọwọ́ kan àwọn ìfẹ́ inú, ó ń gbà ọkàn ó sì ń fa ìfẹ́ láti mọ̀ mọ́ra.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: School Simulator is an app aiming at supporting parents, teachers and therapists to give preschool training of children with autism spectrum disorder. It mainly contains two parts: preschool training and community communication. Autistic children can get trained in four categories, self care, instruction understanding, interpersonal interaction, and one day in school, which are expected helpful for their future integration into inclusive classes.
Dimensions & Packaging: Designed for iOS system
Tags: Interface Design, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Speech and Gesture, Pre-school Training
Production Technology: Desk research, field studies, focus group interviews, consumer journey map, and collage activities were conducted for the demand analysis part. Figma, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator were used for the interfaces and interaction design in the project realization.
Design Challenge: The design activity met two challenges: the integration of various training needs, and the design of training lessons. First, though all target autistic children, each of them met different problems in daily life, requiring the variety of content and intensity. Therefore, on the basis of four general training categories, various lessons are provided for users to choose accordingly. Second, since these young children can hardly concentrate for a long period, lessons must be succinct in content, interesting in form, and filled with interactive practice, therefore enhancing the training effectiveness.
Research: We first conducted a desk research, gathering preliminary information towards the autistic children and their common problems in the inclusive education. Second, through a field study, we recorded these children’s emotional problems and behavioral disorders, and observed some intervention methods used. Third, in depth interviews were conducted with experts in autistic research, which made our design focus on the preschool training. Fourth, we made the one-day journey map of a primary school student, exploring various context autistic children may have trouble in, therefore guided the design of training lessons. Finally, we recruited preschool autistic children and collected their preference of colors and cartoon characters via collage activity, used as the reference in the interfaces and characters design. The interfaces and training lessons were constantly iterated in the later evaluations.
Inspiration: School Simulator was inspired by the special needs of autistic children in the inclusive education. In an inclusive school, these children can sit in the same classrooms and join learning activities together with their typically developing peers. However, due to the disorder of emotion and social behavior, it always takes them longer time to get used to the schedule and environment around. We realized the meaningful effects of preschool training for the autistic children.
Project Duration: The project started in October 2021 and finished in January 2022 in Shenzhen.
Operation Flow: Once the app is launched, users can freely choose training lessons for their children, or communicate with others. In each training lesson, children are encouraged to make choices, talk to cartoon characters, and show specified facial expressions based on the context or cues. The built-in algorithms of speech recognition and facial expression recognition can provide quick and accurate feedback to their responses. Once a wrong response is detected, the corresponding training part will be automatically recorded while encouraging the child to redo it till correct. In addition, users can view the training history with accuracy records and make notes at any time.
Team Members: Student: Xinyue Liu
Faculties: Huicong Hu
Shumeng Hou