Hanzi Storytelling Box Block Toy by Jiayu Yao |
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| DESIGN NAME: Hanzi Storytelling Box PRIMARY FUNCTION: Block Toy INSPIRATION: Children often consider Chinese characters to be complex, boring, and irregular, which leads to children's anxiety about learning Chinese characters. By analyzing the cognitive characteristics, age characteristics, and literacy rules of lower-grade students, the Hanzi Storytelling Box is designed based on the "child-oriented UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Hanzi Storytelling Box is a meaningful block toy that supports young children to engage with Chinese characters in a more friendly way. The toy kit uses the pictographic nature of characters, blending visual and auditory to help learners recognize and remember them. The toy divides characters into three categories by theme: nature (yellow), people (blue), and artifacts (red). Young children are encouraged to appreciate the beauty of Chinese characters, explore their mysteries, and find learning fun and engaging. OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: First, the child can freely play with the character blocks. They can place a single block or combine two blocks to form a specific character on the Storytelling Box. After pushing the box button, the description of the Chinese characters and the related fable will be broadcasted by the box. Secondly, the accompanying app allows users to record their own Chinese character stories and play them with the physical toy. The app also provides additional learning resources, such as words, sentences, writing strokes, associative drawing, and review. These resources can help children learn Chinese characters holistically and easily. PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project started in March 2022 and finished in October 2022 in Ningbo. |
PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: TECHNOLOGY: UX design process, Rhinoceros, Keyshot, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Arduino, Electronic circuit technology MATERIALS: Wooden SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: Chinese character module: 50mm*50mm*6mm and 70mm*70mm*6mm Speech recognition module: 140mm*140mm*70mm Specifications: LED, Speaker, RFID Tag and Reader, Button, Battery TAGS: Education, Young children, Block toy, Chinese characters, Electronic toys RESEARCH ABSTRACT: By combining Montessori's sensitive period for senses and Piaget's constructivism theories, and conducting a user study with children aged 3-6 years, the toy uses common objects in daily life as visual representations of Chinese characters. The existing knowledge of the children was utilized to assimilate new knowledge of Chinese characters. The radicals are key to learning Chinese characters, and the Hanzi Storytelling Box allows for free combinations between radical blocks to form different Chinese characters with clear visual elements that present the role of different radicals in the overall Chinese character. CHALLENGE: The first challenge was to categorize and classify the Chinese characters that preschoolers need to learn. The toy divided these characters into three categories based on their meanings and used different colors to show the distinction. The second challenge was to visualize the characters by creating easy-to-understand patterns that fit their meanings. To do this, the toy described the meaning of each character through a one-sentence story in relation to its pattern. ADDED DATE: 2023-02-23 09:11:54 TEAM MEMBERS (8) : Jiayu Yao, Jing Zhang, Jiayi Ma, Yuqi Zhang, Weijia Lin, Sheng Yang, Shuyue Feng and Cheng Yao IMAGE CREDITS: Jiayu Yao、Jiayi Ma、Jing Zhang，2022 |
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NAME: Zhejiang University PROFILE: Zhejiang University, located in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, is a comprehensive national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. As Asia’s leading university, ZJU has a long-standing commitment to seeking truth and pursuing innovation. The University has been deeply dedicated to nurturing high-caliber innovators and future leaders for an increasingly interconnected world; to encouraging interdisciplinary and creative research that addresses challenges the world faces today; and to translating knowledge and creativity to benefit wider communities. |
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Hanzi Storytelling Box Block Toy by Jiayu Yao is Winner in Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design Category, 2022 - 2023.· Read the interview with designer Jiayu Yao for design Hanzi Storytelling Box here.· Press Members: Login or Register to request an exclusive interview with Jiayu Yao. · Click here to register inorder to view the profile and other works by Jiayu Yao. |
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