Study on Baby Toy Design—From the Perspective of Audio-Visual Human Factors

摘要

Toys are partners that accompany children's growth and are indis-pensables that comfort children and promote their mental development. Since babies' physiology and psychology experience rapid development in babyhood (0-18 months). From the perspective of toy design and intellectual education, how to provide appropriate toys for stimulation according to perception and motor development is very important. However, it can be seen from the current toy design practice that most relevant design studies are only for school-age children; there are few studies on baby toy design. The objectives of this study are to ensure that baby toy design is based on academic and theoretical basis and make the design more rigorous to have more positive value to the physical and mental development of babies. Therefore, this study takes intelligent toy design as the viewpoint to conduct study on homologous visual and auditory human factors in babyhood and provide relevant data on human factor to achieve useful and effective design. Since the babies in this study are not yet mature in mind and body, there are a lot of limitations compared with general study objects. Therefore, this study adopts document analysis and expert interviews to study on human factors for baby toy design. The results obtained the following data on babyhood: (1) physical development process at different stages; (2) features of visual ability development at different stages; (3) features of auditory ability development at different stages; and (4) policies and suggestions for toy design for different stages.