Research On The Interaction Design Of Children’s Mobile Applications For The Purpose Of Promoting Parent-child Relationships

With the popularity of smart phones,tablet PCs and other intelligent devices,many kinds of outstanding mobile applications are constantly emerging.In particular the large demand for children’s products,children’s mobile application development is becoming a boom.But most of the children’s mobile applications are based solely on education or entertainment.On the one hand,children can acquire knowledge of mathematics,English and Chinese etc from the education application;On the other hand,children are easily addicted to the games and led to family conflicts.The research on the interaction between parents and children is still relatively minor.Today,mode of children’s education is in gradually diversification,especially parent-child interaction is increasingly valued by parents.The research shows that the parent-child interaction can enhance feelings between parents and children,and meet the emotional needs of children.A lot of people who have problems in adulthood,the cause of the problem can be traced back to the bad parent-child relationship in children.Therefore,it is very important for parents to interact effectively with children.Based on the above analysis,this paper focuses on the parent-child relationship as a key point to design the children’s mobile applications.And selected the 3-6 year old preschool children and their parents as the research object,analyzes the current situation of parent-child interaction and the influence of mobile application on parent-child relationship,find the problems and come up with solutions.By analyzing the psychological needs and characteristics of preschool children and parents,researching on the parent-child mobile application,find the design methods and principles of the parent-child mobile application.And using these methods and principles to design,we focus on how to solve the relation and the interaction between parents and children.Hope that through the research,let preschool children acquire the knowledge from the games,and effectively solve the problem of the parent-child relationship.