From Design to Technology - -A Case Study of Children's Perception Toward the Dechnology Products

Children as future adults are the oncoming high-tech user population; they live in this new-tech epoch with great variety and rapid change and their perception towards the world already changed accordingly. However, they rarely are considered to be participants in the experimental period of technology and design development. In an attempt to understand children’s interests and their perception or even aesthetic perception/preference under this high-tech tendency, this research adopted the “Dechnology 2014 New Collection” products as stimuli to investigate elementary school-age children’s insights and to explore any gender differences. Results are found that gender variations indeed exist on children’s perception and aesthetic preference toward new Dechnology (Design + Technology) products. And the variation often happens when the object is a simile or metaphor of the opposite gender. This study is intended to reveal the ways in which children sense and perceive new Dechnology products and to provide information of children’s concern and viewpoint to technologists, designers, and educators.

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