Child's Age: 3 years 8 months
Child's Gender: Male
"The Design"
Considering the design, would your child be physically able to…
- Hold the console (in any way)? Yes
- Hold the console using the handles? Yes
- Use the pen? Yes
- Use the buttons? Yes
- Use the camera? Yes
- Use the touch screen? Yes
- Manipulate the slider? Yes
Considering the design would your child able to grasp how the following parts work…
- The pen? Immediately / After Exploration / No
- The eraser (on the back of the pen)? Immediately / After Exploration / No
- The buttons (forward and back)? Immediately / After Exploration/ No
- The camera? Immediately / After Exploration / No
- The touch screen? Immediately / After Exploration / No
- The slider? Immediately / After Exploration / No
Keeping in mind the product will be water resistant / proof, in terms of safety do you feel you would be comfortable letting your child use it? Yes / No
How do you rate the following aspects of the design, considering them from the perspective of your child…
- General appearance Bad 1 2 3 4 5 Excellent
- Size Bad 1 2 3 4 5 Excellent
- Shape Bad 1 2 3 4 5 Excellent
- Weight Bad 1 2 3 4 5 Excellent
We understand that children between 18 months and 4 years generally like bold bright colours, however, we have not been able to come up with a set colour scheme for the product yet.
Do you think that it would be best for the console to be a single set colour scheme, or a changeable / selectable one?
Set colour scheme / Changeable or Selectable
If you answered ‘Set colour scheme’, please tell us what you would like as the main colour, or describe in more detail how you would like the product to be coloured…
If you answered Changeable or Selectable, please circle which of the following you think would be the best…
- Product to come in a variety of set colours, so parents can pick the best for their child
- Bad 1 2 3 4 5 Excellent
- Product to have a variety of changeable colour cases
- Bad 1 2 3 4 5 Excellent
- Product colouration to digitally change to suit the different applications*
- Bad 1 2 3 4 5 Excellent
* This would involve the casing of the product to be transparent, with image projecting technology beneath, like that in a plasma screen monitor, which would be able to display images that would either relate directly to the application being run by showing images, or at least show different colours for different applications
"Stories and Nursery Rhymes"
- How do you rate the educational value of this application for your child?
- Educational 1 2 3 4 5 Very Educational
- How entertaining do you think your child would find this application?
- Educational 1 2 3 4 5 Very Educational
- How easy to use do you think your child would find this application?
- Difficult 1 2 3 4 5 Easy
- Please specify if there is anything in particular you like/dislike about this application…
- We think that reading stories should be a parent's job and not have a console take that personal touch and emotional value of it.
- Are there any improvements / changes you think would be valuable to this application?
"Drawing and Colouring"
- How do you rate the educational value of this application for your child?
- Not 1 2 3 4 5 Very
- How entertaining do you think your child would find this application?
- Not 1 2 3 4 5 Very
- How easy to use do you think your child would find this application?
- Not 1 2 3 4 5 Very
- Please specify if there is anything in particular you like/dislike about this application…
- I like the fact that this helps save paper. On the other hand, the screen looks quite small and can be harmful when child is viewing it continuously.
- Are there any improvements / changes you think would be valuable to this application?
- More Colour choice would be a good idea for kids
"Alphabets, Words and Numbering"
- How do you rate the educational value of this application for your child?
- Not 1 2 3 4 5 Very
- How entertaining do you think your child would find this application?
- Not 1 2 3 4 5 Very
- How easy to use do you think your child would find this application?
- Difficult 1 2 3 4 5 Easy
- Please specify if there is anything in particular you like/dislike about this application…
- We like the fact that this product has actually got some educational value than others seen in the market.
- Are there any improvements / changes you think would be valuable to this application?
"Camera and Gallery"
- How do you rate the educational value of this application for your child?
- Not 1 2 3 4 5 Very
- How entertaining do you think your child would find this application?
- Not 1 2 3 4 5 Very
- How easy to use do you think your child would find this application?
- Difficult 1 2 3 4 5 Easy
- Please specify if there is anything in particular you like/dislike about this application…
- This seems like a good fun for kids.
- Are there any improvements / changes you think would be valuable to this application?
"Music and Compositions"
- How do you rate the educational value of this application for your child?
- Not 1 2 3 4 5 Very
- How entertaining do you think your child would find this application?
- Not 1 2 3 4 5 Very
- How easy to use do you think your child would find this application?
- Not 1 2 3 4 5 Very
- Please specify if there is anything in particular you like/dislike about this application…
- We like the fact that it encourages the interest of a child in music. However, the only disadvantage could be that its not a real instrument.
- Are there any improvements / changes you think would be valuable to this application?
- None
"Overall Software"
Please tell us which of the applications you consider to be the most important to the product, and what you think your child would enjoy and use most, by ordering them from 1 to 5 below, 1 meaning the most important and 5 being the least important…
Most Important to you Child's Preference- Stories and Nursery Rhymes 5 5
- Drawing and Colouring In 2 4
- Alphabet, Words and Numbers 1 3
- Camera and Gallery 3 2
- Music 4 1
Do you think your child would be interested in the ability to print out pictures that the draw, colour in or take using the camera? Yes / No
Are there any other areas of your child’s education you would like to see tackled by this product? Yes, if it could have foreign languages option added to the system.
"Parent Console Interaction"
Would you like to be able to fully control what difficulty levels of the applications would go onto the product? Yes / No
Would you prefer to manage what is on the console via a PC / Mac or on the console itself?
PC or Mac / On the Console
Would you feel comfortable downloading new media for the console from the internet (either through a computer or the console directly depending on your previous answer) or would you prefer it to be available via disc? Internet / Disc
How much would you value the ability to control what your child can do on the console via a remote control? This would allow you to turn the console off, control the volume and give you the ability to lock it within certain applications.
- Not Valuable 1 2 3 4 5 Very Valuable
"Conclusion"
- Not Educational 1 2 3 4 5 Very Educational
- How would you rate the usability of the product for children?
- Not Usable 1 2 3 4 5 Very Usable
- How would you rate the overall entertainment appeal of the product to your child?
- Not Entertaining 1 2 3 4 5 Very Entertaining
- What would you value more in this product, education for your child or entertainment for your child?
- Educational 1 2 3 4 5 Entertaining
- What would you consider a reasonable price for this product?
- Under £30 £30-40 £40 -50 £50-60 £60 -70 £70-80 Over £80
- How interested would you be in this product?
- Not Interested 1 2 3 4 5 Very Interested
- Any Further comments? Quite Impressive!
We had a great deal to learn from this survey and are thinking of evolving our product as follows:
- Foreign Languages option
- Parent Control Console
- Templates for Photo Gallery
- Zoom in Feature for Camera
- A colour pallete in advanced version of our software applications
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