Gamification Design Based Research on Speech Training System for Hearing-Impaired Children

摘要

There are about 137,000 hearing-impaired children in 0-6 years old in China. Unfortunately, it has about 23,000 newborn hearing-impaired children each year. The number is far larger in the world. As a result of hearing impairment, children lost the ability to speak. The society should pay more attention to them. A number of methods and products have been developed. However, these products are more like laboratory instruments and lack of humane and fun. As a result, it has no appeal to children. Parents has a great influence to the training. So it requires time and effort from the parents and many parents may have to take time off from work. Economic pressures increases the misfortune of each family. In the age of advocating the user experience, it is essential to understand the products from the perspective of hearing-impaired children and their families to increase interest of the product. Gamification design is a great solution that increases the interest of the speech training system. In this paper, we focus on the influence of different game mechanics of speech training system for hearing-impaired children combined with the theories of immersion, flow experience and performance. A self-service training system has been developed.