An Eye-tracking Study of Preschoolers' Use of Tangible and Multi-touch Interfaces

LI Na; ZHANG Zhi-bin; YANG Yang; SHA Shu-hong; WENG Zhong-Ming

doi:10.19554/j.cnki.1001-3563.2022.16.010

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Packaging Engineering ›› 2022, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (16) : 101-108. DOI: 10.19554/j.cnki.1001-3563.2022.16.010

An Eye-tracking Study of Preschoolers' Use of Tangible and Multi-touch Interfaces

LI Na¹, ZHANG Zhi-bin¹, YANG Yang¹, SHA Shu-hong², WENG Zhong-Ming³

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This paper compares the effects of tangible user interfaces (TUI) and multi-touch interfaces (MTI) on preschoolers’ learning. A preschool educational game, NUMBERS , is developed and the comparison experiment is used to analyze task performance, eye-tracking data, emotion questionnaires, and interview results of TUI and MTI. Therefore, the difference between these two interfaces are compared on cognition, attention and emotion. The study indicates that participants explore more using TUI. Meanwhile, the participants have fewer fixations while manipulating the playing cards and shift their attention mainly between the "question area" and "answer area" on the screen. Moreover, they have higher responses on the emotion questionnaire. Compared with MTI, the TUI can stimulate exploration, reduce cognitive load, improve concentration, and intensify pleasure, which positively impacts on the preschool learning. These findings provide theoretical support for applying TUI in preschool education and make the eye-tracking method applied in the preschoolers’ learning field possible.

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tangible user interfaces; multi-touch interfaces; preschool education; tangible educational games; eye-tracking

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LI Na, ZHANG Zhi-bin, YANG Yang, SHA Shu-hong, WENG Zhong-Ming. An Eye-tracking Study of Preschoolers' Use of Tangible and Multi-touch Interfaces[J]. Packaging Engineering. 2022, 43(16): 101-108 https://doi.org/10.19554/j.cnki.1001-3563.2022.16.010