Abstract
This paper presents an experimental study on young children’s off‐task behaviors with and without the designed system called e‐PAYA (PA for pat, YA for yell) which comprises learning devices, a sensory input device, a wireless local network and RFID software. We demonstrate the impacts on learning by applying e‐PAYA in storytelling. The research methods include observation, questionnaire survey, interviewing and experiment. Sixty 4‐year‐old children were selected from a private preschool in Taipei City. Half of them were arranged in an experimental group with e‐PAYA, with the others in a control group without e‐ PAYA. The proposed framework was designed, implemented and validated through a prototype system. The results show that there are significant differences in regard to group and gender. With e‐PAYA, frequency analysis shows that on‐task performance is significantly greater than that in the control group (p=.001).
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