Experimental Study: How fast is the Children's Reaction Times for Different Heights of Traffic Signs - Ergonomic Principles and Traffic Safety Aspect
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Touchscreen devices have dramatically increased the accessibility and usage of technology, causing escalating usage, especially by very young children. Although the effects of screen time have been shown to produce serious (negatively effects on executive functioning, attention problems, school difficulties, sleep and eating disorders, and obesity) and even life-threatening consequences (due to radiation emission), technology can be beneficial if it is carefully used. Child-centered technology is especially designed to be as entertaining and captivating as possible. In order to examine how touchscreen devices, influence the acquisition of some important spatial concepts and provide exciting opportunities for learning new abilities, an experimental research was conducted aimed to determine whether the type of device used (computers or tablets) in the
natural kindergarten environment influences young children performances. For the purpose of this work, geometrical symbols on traffic sig...ns were used to test spatial relationships – left/right, and longer/shorter relations. The test was carried out on a sample of 30 pre-school children. The results show significant differences between the two-testing media for identifying the longer vs. shorter relationships in favor of Tablet PC. Based on the results obtained, it can be concluded that the kinesthetic characteristics of tablets, the novelty factor and the opportunity to learn through playing, provide a positive approach to the early childhood education. Besides, the interactive environment created in a kindergarten by using tablets contributes to introduce new teaching methods which are expected to amplify the pedagogical capacity, changing the way of
spatial concepts acquisition, as well as, children traffic education take place within.
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Touchscreen devices / Testing / Education / Preschool children / Traffic signs.Извор:
IETI Transactions on Ergonomics and Safety, 2019, 3, 1, 32-37Издавач:
- International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI)
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- Развој софтвера и националне базе података за стратешко управљање развојем транспортних средстава и инфраструктуре у друмском, железничком, ваздушном и водном саобраћају применом европских транспортних мрежних модела (RS-MESTD-Technological Development (TD or TR)-36027)
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GraFarTY - JOUR AU - Trifunović, Aleksandar AU - Čičević, Svetlana AU - Dragović, Magdalena PY - 2019 UR - https://grafar.grf.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1894 AB - Touchscreen devices have dramatically increased the accessibility and usage of technology, causing escalating usage, especially by very young children. Although the effects of screen time have been shown to produce serious (negatively effects on executive functioning, attention problems, school difficulties, sleep and eating disorders, and obesity) and even life-threatening consequences (due to radiation emission), technology can be beneficial if it is carefully used. Child-centered technology is especially designed to be as entertaining and captivating as possible. In order to examine how touchscreen devices, influence the acquisition of some important spatial concepts and provide exciting opportunities for learning new abilities, an experimental research was conducted aimed to determine whether the type of device used (computers or tablets) in the natural kindergarten environment influences young children performances. For the purpose of this work, geometrical symbols on traffic signs were used to test spatial relationships – left/right, and longer/shorter relations. The test was carried out on a sample of 30 pre-school children. The results show significant differences between the two-testing media for identifying the longer vs. shorter relationships in favor of Tablet PC. Based on the results obtained, it can be concluded that the kinesthetic characteristics of tablets, the novelty factor and the opportunity to learn through playing, provide a positive approach to the early childhood education. Besides, the interactive environment created in a kindergarten by using tablets contributes to introduce new teaching methods which are expected to amplify the pedagogical capacity, changing the way of spatial concepts acquisition, as well as, children traffic education take place within. PB - International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI) T2 - IETI Transactions on Ergonomics and Safety T1 - Experimental Study: How fast is the Children's Reaction Times for Different Heights of Traffic Signs - Ergonomic Principles and Traffic Safety Aspect EP - 37 IS - 1 SP - 32 VL - 3 DO - 10.6722/TES.201907.3(1).0004 ER -
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Trifunović, A., Čičević, S.,& Dragović, M.. (2019). Experimental Study: How fast is the Children's Reaction Times for Different Heights of Traffic Signs - Ergonomic Principles and Traffic Safety Aspect. in IETI Transactions on Ergonomics and Safety International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI)., 3(1), 32-37. https://doi.org/10.6722/TES.201907.3(1).0004
Trifunović A, Čičević S, Dragović M. Experimental Study: How fast is the Children's Reaction Times for Different Heights of Traffic Signs - Ergonomic Principles and Traffic Safety Aspect. in IETI Transactions on Ergonomics and Safety. 2019;3(1):32-37. doi:10.6722/TES.201907.3(1).0004 .
Trifunović, Aleksandar, Čičević, Svetlana, Dragović, Magdalena, "Experimental Study: How fast is the Children's Reaction Times for Different Heights of Traffic Signs - Ergonomic Principles and Traffic Safety Aspect" in IETI Transactions on Ergonomics and Safety, 3, no. 1 (2019):32-37, https://doi.org/10.6722/TES.201907.3(1).0004 . .