Research On Interaction Design Of Video Games For Preschool Children

Today, all kinds of digital products have involved into our lives. Children have become the most youngest users. Our society has been attempting to create the virtual reality world environment for the children. Now, video games have attracted the children deeply. Video games are artificial products in which interaction design could effect the cognitive development of children. So it will be a meaningful problem that how to analyze the interaction design of video games which children love to play.Mainly topic of this paper is how to analyze the interaction design of video games for preschool children by focusing on the perspective of "life and nature". We wanted to know that whether the children’s video games’ structure of interaction design is in line with the natural laws for children or not; and whether the games have the meanings of the "life caring and respect for nature"; whether the video games can help children learn how to link the consciousness of love and affection, and then make children develop naturally in the process of participating in the video games. There are some specific ideas: Firstly, based on the researches and the theories which are related to this paper, we will put forward to some hypotheses that focus on "life and nature" of interaction design for preschool children. And then this paper will design the flow chart and the model and the analysis table which will be used to analyzing the interaction design for preschool children by focus on "life and nature". Secondly, as an example, based on the ranking and the evaluations in "Children’s App" of App Store, this paper will select some popular games. According to the models which is designed above, we will draw the games’ structures of interaction and the mental space for the users to show the feelings on playing the games intuitively. Thirdly, through the comparisons and analyses of different children’s video games, we pointed out the problems of the video games and the ways on how to design the interactions for children’s video games on the way of "sensations" 、 "behaviors" and "emotions". Finally, this paper will put forward to the principles and methods on how to design the video games from the perspective of the "nature and life" and the ways how to make the life education of preschool children into playing video games in the future.It is said that under the collisions between "traditional" and "modern" 、 "nature" and "technology", so that we can inspire more ideas on the ways that how to design children’s video games, in order to help children grow up naturally. It will be an important content that focus on children’s life education and the research on how to design the children’s video games’ interaction so that it can make means of life education and the respect for nature. It not only need people to pay more attentions to relate the product designing to the life education, but also need more explorations and practice.