TANGIBLE INTERFACE GAME FOR STIMULATING CHILD LANGUAGE COGNITIVE SKILL

The intervention for cognitive language development is required to be conducted at a young age. As children usually gain the skill through their play, this study proposed a physical interactive game to help children improve their language skill in both Thai and English language for pre-schoolers. The motivation of this research is to create a game that has characteristics of a toy where children require bodily engagement with the objects to enhance their cognitive processes to effectively develop language skills. The research proposed and developed a novel game system underpinned by the interactive technologies. The game is evaluated by three methods: paired t-test is used to determine the overall performance of the proposed game; the 90/90 standard evaluation is also applied to see whether if the game is used for formal education the majority of the group (>90%) will achieve the objective of learning. Also, the feedbacks from expert validation are collected. All three evaluation methods indicate the primary success of the game is to assist Thai pre-schoolers in improving their skill at a young age.