Turn - o
Developing sharing habits in children
Overview
Children aged 8-12 years tend to develop long lasting habits, which may turn out to be positive or negative. Due to several identified reasons children are hesitant in sharing their experiences, belongings and emotions. Turn-o encourages sharing behaviours through a collaborative artwork activity.
Challenge
How might we encourage sharing habits through designed experiences between children?
Role
Researching, storyboarding, usability testing, prototyping
Tools
Rhino, Auto CAD, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
Project Collaborators
3 group members
Year
2018
Turn-o is a rotatable painting platform that encourages children to share by uniting their ideas and skills to produce a collective artwork.
Design Objectives
Cognitive
Able to focus on different actions simultaneously
Comprehension of an objects properties.
Socio-Emotional
Make decisions, manage behaviours, resolve conflicts
Sharing thoughts, masking emotions easily.
Intellectual
Analyse problems, deduce solutions, adapt to change
Innovative thinking, building relations
Affinity Diagram
After having all the insights our goal was to synthesise them as much as possible therefore we shortlisted the main conclusions we wanted to take forward in the project. Also under each problem area, we devised design strategies that could help tackle the contextual problem.
Sharing limitations
Promote sharing affectionate objects
Fear of being left alone
Groups rather than individuals
Autonomy
Rule free activities based on child preferences
Fear of rejection
Less to no incorrect ways to interact with product
Design Objectives
Design a product that becomes the platform for sharing painting expressions, stories, accessories and experiences owned by 8-12 year olds.
Product Design
We were able to iterate our design during the process based on user feedbacks through the testing phases.
User Storyboard
Design Features
color palette
Holes for brushes to drip excess water while taking out brush.
6+6 areas: 3 inner segments for main colors, the outer for mixing
Top of the cup supports palette while rotating.
Exhibition
To wrap up the project and to conduct user tests on the prototype simultaneously, we exhibited the project for a students exhibition and displayed their artworks.
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