A study on perceptions of preschool Children’s furniture design: Pictorial stimuli experiment

Pornchai Tamthintha,Kritchakhis Nawattanaprasert,Kusuma Palaprom,P Puspitasari,A Dwi Astuti,I Srikun,A.H Suryanto,Y Rohmat Aji Pradana,M Niaz Akhtar,T Lenggo Ginta,M Sharifi Jebeli,D Zakariya Lubis,A Ayu Permanasari,A Larasati

doi:10.1051/matecconf/201820401003

A study on perceptions of preschool Children’s furniture design: Pictorial stimuli experiment

Pornchai Tamthintha, Kritchakhis Nawattanaprasert + Show 12 more

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https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201820401003

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Abstract

The preschool center there is a place for educational topreschool children before they begin compulsory education at primary school. The different of the preschool children’s furniture will affect the different perceptions of preferences and behaviors of children in the classroom. The furniture that relating the satisfaction of children. It will become the part of stimulus that attracts and motivates children and also an appropriate physical elements to encourage a learning environment. The research found that the different elements of design on the preschool children’s furniture affect the perceptions of children they prefer the follow: warm colors on children’s desk and chair while cool colors on bookshelves, and non-pattern, natural (animal) form and natural (wood) material on children’s desk, children’s chair and bookshelves.The study results can help designers in their selection of elements of design on the preschool children’s furniture, specially for classroom in the preschool center.

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Preschool center there is a place for an educational establishment or classrooms offering early childhood education to children
The different of elements of design it will become a part of stimulus that attracts and motivates children and an appropriate physical environment to encourage a learning space
The methodology was done in 6 stages: 1) creations of simulated 3-D images of a preschool desk, pre-school chair and self-book; 2) creation of a questionnaire for observations the student and perceptions the teacher ; 3) conducting the survey; 4) creation of three furniture design; 5) conducting the survey; and 6) analyzing the responses, as follows: 1. Creation of 3-D preschool children’s furniture images under 8 different elements of design: 1) warm color 2) cool color 3)non-pattern 4)patterned 5)geometry form 6)natural(animal) form 7)natural(wood) material and 8)artificial(Plastic) material.; 2

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Preschool center there is a place for an educational establishment or classrooms offering early childhood education to children. The different of elements of design it will become a part of stimulus that attracts and motivates children and an appropriate physical environment to encourage a learning space. The early study found that the difference of elemens of design in color will make the children learn the form more patterns will make children excited. In this survey found that preschool children’s furniture; desk, chair and bookshelves in the classroom of the Preschool Center of Promrungsri Temple Donmuang District, Bangkok, Thailand it does not attracts and motivates children and an appropriate physical environment to encourage a learning space

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