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Research questions
Can Tangible Interactions (1) improve the playability (2) of a toy? How the involvement of users in the early stages can...
Executive summary (who, for whom and why?)
Types of reviews involved
This Literature review tend o combine the following types of literature review:
- Context reviews place a specific project in the big picture;
- Theoretical reviews compare how different theories address an issue;
- Integrative reviews summarize what is known at a point of time.
Introduction
some theoretical background on these toys
Keywords: Tangible Interactions; Toy Design; Children & Technology; Experiential Prototype; Hardware Sketching;
Interactive toys design
What is the current status of work on these toys?
Why the others work for it?
What has to be improved?
Intermediate conclusions
Co-design with children
Why involve user on the early development stages?
"Observe how children play with stuffed animals or action figures. Their play is filled with emotion content (Goldman 1998 in DRUIN, 1999, p.84). They attribute emotions whatever they are dolls or trucks."
How to develop co-design with children
"Can children be effective partners, and are they qualified (DRUIN, 1999, p.846)" for the concept development of a product?
What has to be improved?
Intermediate conclusions
Toy Design Research in the eyes of field experts - summary
Interview 1 (person 1)
Interview 2 (persn 2)
Intermediate conclusions
compare here theory with practice - what interesting was said by the experts
