A Courseware Developed with Toy-like Interactive Interfaces

Abstract

The current study proposes a courseware built on game design and operated with toy-like interactive interfaces, which aims to increase students’ enjoyment, and motivation. The authors developed small scale educational games with sensor-based interfaces and observed children’s learning experiences when using presented novel input interfaces. The participants are 192 fourth- and sixth-grade students in Taiwan. Through the preliminary observations, this study found that toy-like interactive interfaces not only attracts the interest and gain enjoyments of children, but also stimulates their learning motivation. The findings have highlighted the value of the courseware with toy-like interfaces and indicated that the introduction of novel interfaces can be a useful tool for enhancing classroom learning activities.