유아교육용 모바일 애플리케이션 UX 평가표 개발에 관한 연구

Abstract

As the usage of smart devices has expanded to those in all age brackets, the application market for early childhood education has grown in quantity. Despite the magnificent growth in quantity, the side effects such as overindulgence and addiction for infants is of concern to many people. However, some of the results from the empirical researches concerning efficacy in terms of the education aspect have been reported often recently. According to the results, multimedia could be used as an educational equipment and the interesting toy for infants that stimulates their creativity and potential. The side effects such as overindulgence and addiction could be controlled and supervised under the guidance of parents or in the peer play. To enjoy these benefits of multimedia, it is important to choose the right application by parents or teachers for infants. However, an objective basis or standard for determining this is not satisfactory at the moment. Lately, more objective and diverse classifications and standards of the professional perspective have been required rather than the number of app market downloads or product reviews, thus the researchers have studied to develope a“mobile application UX assessment table for infant education" that can be used as the assessment indices of applications in early childhood education for professionals. The study has also applied the assesment to on use applications to analyse its usability and utilizability. This can be utilized as one of the assesment indices for professionals as it offers standards of application selection for users such as parents or teachers who need strict selection criteria for beneficial applications. It is also highly expected that the table could be a guide to application suppliers whom design and manufacture applications for infants.