Using English Learning Toys as the Emotional Analysis Tool to Evaluate Children Behavior

Abstract

This study aims to develop a user-center design; UCD English learning toy for children to learn English. The research mainly used qualitative interviews to make a recording and conversation with the children. From observing the users’ interaction with the toy, the researchers can record a unique learning process and emotional fluctuation from the children. By doing a comprehensive evaluation, the analytical items include participants’ emotion, facial expression, speaking, and motion factors. In addition, the research sought whether the children can use the toy’s voice functioning to recognize the English word or a sentence from the word cards. The study results have shown that the English learning toy increased the children’s curiosity, motivation and imagination during the interactive process with the toy.