2024 Galleries
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Galleries // 2024 Spark:Spring Student // All in Number
All in Number
Winner - Bronze
Competition: Spark:Spring Student
Designer: Design Team
Design Type: Concept, Health & Medical, Product & industrial
Company / Organization / School: Kyunghee University
Team Members: Kyunghoon Lee & Gyumin Lee
One of the challenges faced by autistic children is a deficit in visual perceptual skills. This includes the ability to recognize, discriminate, and interpret shapes in visual stimuli, which can lead to difficulties in reading, writing, learning, and daily life. While various play products exist to address these challenges, approaching learning products for autistic children, who often struggle with communication, remains a difficult task. Recognizing that many autistic children enjoy rules and sequences, we focused on their love for numbers and discovered that they find numbers appealing. Derived from numbers, this product offers a friendly approach while incorporating the three-dimensional creative forms inherent in numbers. Structured with magnetized separation and connection, this product allows easy disassembly, where rotating it 360 ยบ transforms numeric information into personalized three-dimensional forms of numbers, offering a natural way for autistic children, who may find it challenging to participate in play, to engage easily. Numbers 0 to 9 provide children with a familiar and creative new world of shapes beyond the mundane basic shapes like squares and triangles. Through this product, children can enhance their visual perceptual skills by identifying over 55 diverse combinations of shapes and colors displayed on the screen.
