The Use(fulness) of Therapeutic Toys

Fikar, Peter; Güldenpfennig, Florian; Ganhör, Roman

doi:10.1145/3196709.3196721

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“…Their work is built up from a bottom-up approach, describing how assessments do not just evaluate the usefulness of product but also shape the design process when considered from the beginning. Fikar, Güldenpfennig and Ganhör (2018) propose five generic design lenses for interactive toys to afford therapists, allowing therapists to design play activities. These lenses were developed while observing early intervention specialists during intervention sessions and discussions.…”

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“…Therapy in early childhood is facilitated through toys and play. Having the right tools is important to support both the clinicians' therapeutic effort in delivering effective intervention and to provide ways to engage children and drive them to work towards the therapeutic goals (Fikar, Güldenpfennig and Ganhör, 2018). In a time where customer demands are becoming more personal, development cycles are shorter and market competition continues to increase, a successful product is determined by how well the customer overall requirements have been satisfied.…”

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A User-Centred Design Framework for the Development of Speech and Language Therapeutic Toys

2021

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Therapy in early childhood is facilitated through toys and play. While mainstream toys are designed for children, therapeutic toys need to satisfy requirements from clinicians, caregivers, and children. The study presented in this paper investigated the challenges that 22 international toy designers encounter during the design process and whether support is required when developing products for speech and language therapy, through a mixed-method approach. Results show that considerable challenges are encountered during the early design stages. Nonetheless, the toy design process remains unsupported, while no support is available for designers to consider therapeutic needs. Based on the feedback received, eleven requirements were identified upon which a user-centred design support framework was proposed to assist toy designers during the task clarification stage, taking into account the affordances that therapeutic toys should have without inhibiting the creative process.

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A User-Centred Design Framework for the Development of Speech and Language Therapeutic Toys

2021

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“…Therapeutic toys are specifically designed toy products intended to support the work of clinicians, by which they can establish a relationship with young children and in turn, motivate children towards the therapeutic effort. Designers' own knowledge and experience is limited to address the needs for such niche products, or they may find it difficult to transfer their skills across different design domains (Fikar et al, 2018). Additionally, the exhaustiveness of their research is often restricted by the accessibility to key field experts, the number of details on the design brief and their understanding of the customers' needs.…”

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Evaluation of an Affordance-Based Requirements Generation Tool for Speech And Language Therapeutic Toys

2022

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Task clarification poses various challenges to designers as they need to understand the different needs of users before translating the requirements into specifications and aptly conceiving product concepts in the subsequent design stage. This paper presents a descriptive study for the evaluation of a framework and its implementation as a computer-based prototype tool, proposed to assist designers in generating and understanding affordance-based requirements for speech and language therapeutic toys. Results show that early design support is beneficial to both experienced and novice designers.

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“…This study contributes to bridging the gap between traditional and smart toy research by applying the analytical model known as the functional manipulation potential of toys (FMP) [9] to identify if and how smart features such as connectivity affect otherwise traditional toys. Although the FMP has been applied in toy, play, and design research with promising outcomes [e.g., 10,11,12,13], thus far it has not been used to analyze smart toys.…”

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How connectivity affects otherwise traditional toys? A functional analysis of Hello Barbie

Mertala

2020

International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction

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The current smart toy research has not fully acknowledged the existing research on traditional toys. Instead, the focus has been on the digital layer of smart toys. This study contributes to bridging the gap between traditional and smart toy research by applying the analytical model known as the functional manipulation potential of toys (FMP) to identify if and how smart features such as connectivity affect otherwise traditional toys. Based on purposeful sampling of informant-rich cases, this study uses FMP to analytically compare the digitally enhanced Hello Barbie doll to a traditional Barbie. The data, analyzed using abductive methods, comprises the tangible dolls and the 8,000 lines of dialogue that Hello Barbie can speak. The results show that connectivity can notably change the FMP of an otherwise traditional toy. These changes took place in two forms: additions and amplifications. Additions mean that Hello Barbie contains functional elements a traditional Barbie does not. Amplifications refer to situations where already existing elements were augmented by the connectivity. Implications for future research are discussed.

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The Use(fulness) of Therapeutic Toys

Cited by 6 publications

References 32 publications

A User-Centred Design Framework for the Development of Speech and Language Therapeutic Toys

A User-Centred Design Framework for the Development of Speech and Language Therapeutic Toys

Evaluation of an Affordance-Based Requirements Generation Tool for Speech And Language Therapeutic Toys

How connectivity affects otherwise traditional toys? A functional analysis of Hello Barbie

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