Design of Educational Game Tools Recognizing Body Members Using The Kansei Engineering Method

Problems found in developing children's creativity in children age national country city Mataram West Nusa Tenggara. is the non-use of educational game tools provided by schools. Educational game tools that exist only to be stored in the warehouse and never applied in children's learning. Teachers are more monotonous to teach using magazines and children's books. The type of research used is experiment with Randomized Pretest-Postest Control Group Design design that is the existence of the treatment group and control group. To obtain optimal development, the treatment group was given treatments 5 times while the control group did not get treatment. To obtain the appropriate data, the researchers collected data from the observation, documentation, and instruments of the creative development of children. The subjects were 2 classes of A1 as a treatment group with 10 children consisting of 4 males and 6 females, and A2 group as a control group with 8 children consisting of 4 males and 4 females. The results of this study at the pre-test stage that is for the group A1 57.37% and group A2 54.37%. In the post-test stage, after the treatment group received treatment, the result of the A1 group was 74.25% and the A2 group 56.40%. The final result of the comparison of pre-test and post-test that is treatment group (A1) has increased 16,88% while the control group (A2) only 2.03%. Through the utilization of educational game tool that is the image media in children's learning activities, teachers are able to increase the creativity of children aged 4-5 years. So that the utilization of educational media game tools will affect the creativity of children aged 4-5 years in children age national country city Mataram West Nusa Tenggara.

The community service project that we conducted on October 30, 2021 at TK Al Gazali Desa Metere District Lakudo Central Buton District aims to provide teachers with insight into effective media for learning in Early Childhood, to improve teacher skills in creating educational game tools, and to provide teachers with insights and equip them to develop learning media in the form of Educational Game Tools for Children in their Early Age. Teachers at Al Gazali Kindergarten in Metere Village, Lakudo District, Central Buton Regency were the intended recipients of this activity. The topic of dedication concerns the instructors' degree of awareness and ability, as well as the limitations of educational gaming instruments that can help pupils at Al Gazali Kindergarten in Metere Village acquire moral and religious values. Three phases are necessary to resolve the problem: preparation, implementation, and assessment. The planning stage begins with observations to ascertain the state of educational gaming instruments in use at the school. The implementation stage is comprised of training in the creation of Hijaiyyah Letter Flash Cards, beginning with the delivery of material in the form of perentase via lecture methods, followed by Q&A or discussion and training in the form of a workshop in the creation of APE Flash Cards Hijaiyyah Letter as a means of improving teacher skills. Monitoring and assessment concludes the process. Monitoring and evaluation are accomplished by the collection and analysis of data at each level. The training results indicated a degree of success, with kindergarten teachers Al Gazali Desa Metere gaining a better understanding of the importance of APE in stimulating the development of moral and religious values, teachers improving their skills in creating APE Flash Cards to aid in the learning process, teachers responding positively to the training conducted, and teachers successfully completing the creation of APE Flash Card Hijaiyyah, according to the number.

Excellent motor development is that the improvement of children's movements that use little muscles or solely bound body elements. Hidayat (2005) said that the development of preschool age children includes aspects of gross and excellent motor skills, language and social adaptation. The development of this aspect can be stimulated, one of which is the use of Educational Game Tools. The purpose of this research was to establish the effectiveness of using educational games to stimulate excellent motor development in preschool children at TKIT Bunayya Lhokseumawe.
 The method used in this research is Semi Experiment with a population of 152 TKIT Bunayya students. The sampling technique used is the Arbitrary Testing technique, with a total of 20 respondents who were given stimulation at the time of information collection. The data collection was carried out on 27 to 31 August 2018. The information from this study was processed using the dependent t-test of educational game variables and fine motor development in preschool children.
 The results showed that the use of educational games was effective in stimulating fine motor development in preschool children with p-esteem = 0.000 < (0.05). It is recommended to use educational game tools to stimulate motor development in children according to their developmental age. For other researchers, it is better to use other game tools to stimulate development and can develop this research with a large number of samples and have a control group.

This study aimed to determine the business opportunities for making educational game tools during the Covid-19 pandemic. This research was a qualitative research using literature study method. The data obtained were then analyzed descriptively. The development of children's abilities during this pandemic cannot be underestimated. Parents and teachers must work together to create an effective learning for children. In designing an interesting and effective learning, one must use learning media that can attract children's interest. Therefore educational play tools were a solution to the problems faced by most parents during this pandemic. Educational play tools become a medium for creating meaningful learning activities for children. Seeing the importance of this educational game tool, the public's demand for this media was increasing. This was one of the factors that made selling educational game tools a promising business opportunity. Several manufacturers that produce educational games have experienced an increase in the number of orders and this has resulted in an increase in sales turnover. Business opportunities in the sale of educational game tools based on market analysis will continue to increase. This was because parents' awareness of child development was increasing. Based on this, to start a business in this field a number of things that must be done are starting to become a reseller, expanding the sales network, increasing cooperation with foundations engaged in child education and looking for craftsmen partners to start producing their own.

The appearance of the packaging on drinks is a required consumer attraction factor, because the appearance of herbal drinks will compete with manufactured beverage products. This article aims to identify consumer needs in the packaging design of the products, determine the design element in the herbal beverage packaging. This study discusses the design of herbal beverage packaging using the kansei engineering method. The kansei engineering method is a design method using the emotional approach of the respondents. The steps in solving using the kansei method are, the first step is to collect kansei words and structuring kansei words, the second is to determine the factors from the respondents' responses, the third is to calculate the relationship between the factors and the variables in it. The result of this research is to design a herbal beverage packaging that is adapted to the selected kansei words. Kansei words used as the basis for packaging design include practical, attractive, informative, quality packaging materials, colorful, medium packaging sizes, medium packaging forms, modern packaging forms, innovative, pictorial, recyclable, transparent packaging bottles, interesting writing fonts

This article discusses the significance of digital technologies in education and how they should be integrated into the learning process. While technologies can serve as valuable tools in education, their effective application in working with preschool and pre-primary children poses challenges due to children's developmental characteristics, specific needs, and educators' competencies in integrating information technologies (IT) into the learning process. The study aims to assess the expression of IT competence among preschool and pre-primary educators. The research methods include scientific literature and document analysis, a written survey (questionnaire), and both quantitative and qualitative data analysis. The analysis of scientific literature and documents highlights that preschool and pre-primary educators' IT competence encompasses key abilities such as digital content creation, digital communication, safety, and problem-solving. Essential skills include using IT applications and digital tools (computers, tablets, interactive whiteboards) to enhance children's artistic expression and writing skills, as well as understanding and effectively communicating digital terminology to children. The study also identifies opportunities for integrating IT into the learning process, such as educational games, video content viewing, online collaboration, information retrieval, content creation, and voice recording exploration. Empirical findings reveal that most respondents can define IT competence and recognize its increasing importance. Interactive floors and interactive whiteboards are the most commonly used digital tools in early childhood education. However, educators often face challenges such as a lack of IT resources, slow internet connectivity, limited time for IT use, and insufficient knowledge or time for professional development. IT is frequently used for exploring e-books, fairy tales, maps, educational videos, and online information searches. However, tools such as voice recorders, printers, and cameras are rarely utilized, and activities such as creating presentations, illustrations, remote communication, and playing educational games remain infrequent.

Background This research does not get a less creative stimulus because it relies on textbooks as learning media. This study aims to determine the validity, practicality and effectiveness of Magic Bag educative games to improve cognitive abilities in students in Kindergarten Dharma Wanita XXII Parengan Academic Year 2023/2024. This study uses the development research method or R&D (Research and Development) with the 4D model. The validity test was carried out by the validator of media experts, material experts, tutors, and also from users. While data collection uses observations, questionnaires, and documentation. Based on data from the validity test, the Magic Bag educational game tool meets the very valid or very feasible category. And feasibility validation is obtained from material expert data with a percentage of 86% and for the validation of the feasibility of data on media experts get a percentage of 93.3%. The average validation results received a percentage of 89.6%. Through the calculation of the percentage of educational game tools Magic Bag is stated to be very valid or very suitable for use in the learning process. Based on the practicality level of the Magic Bag Educative Games, the questionnaire is obtained from the student response, the percentage of 94.3% with the very good category and obtained from the Teacher's Response Questionnaire Sheet gets a percentage of 96.6% with a very good category while the level of effectiveness of the media tool media Educative Magic Bag gets a N-gain value of 0.7 with a high category and an average of 86.6%. It can be concluded that the media of Magic Bag educational game tools is effectively used in the learning process.

Plastic food packaging has become a part of human daily life. The management of plastic waste is a matter of concern due to its potential which is difficult to decompose. This condition causes all producers to have a responsibility not only during the manufacturing process but until the end of the life of their products. This expanded responsibility is called EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility). Therefore the resulting packaging design becomes a breakthrough in this matter. This research attempts to apply the Kansei Engineering method to capture customers' emotional needs from consumers in compiling plastic packaging design parameters. The research method in this paper uses the Kansei Engineering method, namely by collecting Kansei words from respondents at random, then the Kansei words are reduced. The reduced Kansei word will be synthesized to produce quality attributes that are able to meet the customer's emotional needs. The Kansei words obtained from the survey results are 55 words. Packaging quality attributes that have met the customer's emotional needs include protection, refillable, recyclable, biodegradable, food safety, additional function, attractiveness, conformity, ergonomic, user friendly, and content declaration (on the packaging label).

The existence of PAUD or pre-school education is increasingly needed in society. This is especially true because of the current rapid population growth, which causes demands to provide the best educational institutions for children. PAUD is an education given to children aged 0 to 6 years in helping their growth and development to enter the next level of elementary school education. In this case, teachers have a very important role for children because they function as examples or role models for children. In the learning process, teachers are the ones who can organize effective learning and adjust it to the stages of child development. The learning process will be interesting if learning resources and media are used correctly according to the learning design. The purpose of this study was to determine the role of PAUD teachers in the use of APE and identify the impact of using APE on child development in PAUD, as well as to determine the difficulties faced by PAUD teachers when using APE as a learning aid. This study uses a qualitative approach, and looks at how PAUD teachers use APE in early childhood education institutions (especially in PAUD Ar-Rahmat). The data collection techniques used by researchers were by using observation, interview, and documentation techniques. The results of the study show that PAUD teachers play a very important role in selecting, designing, and integrating APE into the learning process, which has a positive impact on child development.

This study evaluates teachers' perceptions of the use of the “Cheerful Exploration Corner” media in improving the fine motor skills of early childhood at Jambi Global Kindergarten. Early childhood education is a conscious effort to optimally develop the body and mind of children aged 0-6 years, as a basis for the formation of a superior personality. Fine motor development that involves small muscle movements such as fingers is very important for children's daily skills. Visual learning media, such as Educational Game Tools (APE), have an important role in stimulating various aspects of child development, including fine motor skills. “Pojok Eksplorasi Ceria” is an educational media consisting of various corners with a specific theme designed to train children's fine motor skills, creativity, and critical thinking skills. This study used a descriptive quantitative method with a survey of Global Kindergarten teachers through an online questionnaire. The results showed that “Cheerful Exploration Corner” attracts children's interest and is effective in developing children's fine motor skills.

E-performance web-based software is used to manage and assess the performance of employees in local government agencies. In the process, some of the local governments racing to create and develop E-performance applications. But there are still many E-performance applications that fail because they don't get a good response from their users in this case the State Civil Apparatus. Then it should be carried out supporting studies in the implementation process of making E-performance applications. One method to determine what is needed by the application of information systems in accordance with what is desired by users emotionally is the Kansei Engineering method. Because through Kansei Engineering can be investigated from various points of view that encourage users to use the information system application. In this research, an application program was created using the Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) algorithm to select and determine several words from a few sentences in an article that will be used as a kansei word. After the screening and selection finally obtained as many as 20 words used as kansei words. A total of 30 participants were involved in this study, namely the State Civil Apparatus in the Government of Bandung City. Furthermore, the results of the questionnaire were processed using multivariate statistical analysis which includes Correlation Coefficient Analysis (CCA), Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Factor Analysis (FA) and Partial Least Square (PLS). After passing through multivariate statistical analysis, the main factor of emotion concept in the design of the E-performance interface is obtained, the optimal factor. But there are other factors supporting the concept of emotion as an alternative design in designing the E-performance interface, the Smart factor. So as to obtain recommendations for designing the E-performance interface produced through the Kansei Engineering method approach in the form of a proposed matrix in which there are several design elements based on the "Optimal" emotional concept

The era of disruption caused fundamental changes in society, including in the pattern of family communication and the education system. Parents are busy with their work, while children have to study at school, causing interpersonal communication between parents and children to become less intense. In fact, interpersonal communication between parents and children plays an important role in children's success in learning, reducing stress, and determining children's future. Therefore, it is necessary to revitalize interpersonal communication between parents and children. The purpose of this community partnership program is to help revitalize interpersonal communication between parents and children by utilizing Educational Game Tools. This community partnership program offers a solution to overcome the problem of interpersonal communication between parents and children through a fun educational game approach as well as to reduce the pressure on children due to the burden of learning at school to partners, namely Cahaya Ria Kindergarten, in Ciledug, Tangerang. The results of this program show that the educational game approach is able to build interpersonal communication between parents and children. In addition, this program also can help children overcome learning pressure at school, and is able to reduce children's dependence on the use of gadgets.

This study examines the implementation of the educational game method of character building students at SD IT Rabbani Watampone. Research includes the type of qualitative research the instrument consists of; Observation guides, interview guidelines and documentation tools. Data processing follows qualitative data procedures namely; Data reduction, data display, and conclusion withdrawal. The results showed that the application of the educative game method in SD IT Rabbani Watampone became a stimulant for the motivation of learners to spirit following the learning process. However, in its application are constraints, including the limited playing facilities and time allocation in the learning process through an insufficient educational method of play. But the school does a preventive step in the among them are the procurement of educational game tools periodically through the policy of school financing, the implementation of teacher training (teaching personnel) in the development and strengthening of learning with educational tools, provide a proportional allocation (including during the hours of school home) to the implementation of educational games and parents already know it because it has done prior coordination and process adaptation and introduction of fast and measurable media. The positive impact of implementing the educational game method for the students ' character is to make the students responsible, independent, honest, appreciate the achievements of others, friendly, fond of reading, environmental care and hard work, discipline and cooperation.

Integrating aesthetic and emotional preferences in social robot design: An affective design approach with Kansei Engineering and Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network

The world of childhood education is a world that cannot be separated from playing activities and various children's play tools. One of the educational institutions that play an important role in the learning process and improving the quality of the world of children's education is in the kindergarten. The efforts made by the institution to improve the development of its students are by applying mathematics learning through educational game tools or commonly abbreviated to (APE). The purpose of this study is to describe how and various APE mathematics learning media in TK IT Pondok Indah, Cilegon-Banten city. This research method uses quantitative methods, namely through observation or surveys and data collection techniques by holding interviews. The results of this study indicate that the implementation of mathematics learning through APE is very effective for students and teachers in their schools. This can add to the attractiveness of learning for early childhood children.