TOY DESIGN: IMPROVING LEARNING EFFECTIVENESS FOR ADHD STUDENTS

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Abstract

With the rapid development of medical knowledge, more young generations are confirmed to suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, abbreviated as ADHD. Inattentive, hyperactive and impulsivity symptoms are three categories that are signs of ADHD. Fidgeting, interrupting, losing homework, daydreaming are all common signs of ADHD. It affects student learning performance and classroom order. The most effective ADHD treatment is a combination of medication and behavioural therapy. However, there are many side effects of ADHD medication use. Thus, fidget toys, therapeutic devices, and other solutions that make use unconscious repetitive actions to increase their concentration. In this solution, feedback is considered as a helpful tool to let ADHD students concentrate on class and improve their learning effectiveness. Nevertheless, in some cases, other students are attracted to the attention by fidget toys and lose focus on class. Therefore, students are forbidden to bring fidget toys back to school. How to take a good balance between regulations of school and student needs was the problem that we were concerned about. This study aims to help ADHD students to reduce their concentration disorders and anxiety problems and use them with school at the same time. Finally, there was testing to let ADHD patients try the model in reality to evaluate the performance. The experimental results show the effectiveness of our proposed method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 24th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education
Subtitle of host publicationDisrupt, Innovate, Regenerate and Transform, E and PDE 2022
EditorsErik Bohemia, Lyndon Buck, Hilary Grierson
PublisherThe Design Society
ISBN (Electronic)9781912254163
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2022
Event24th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Disrupt, Innovate, Regenerate and Transform, E and PDE 2022 - London, United Kingdom
Duration: 8 Sept 20229 Sept 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 24th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Disrupt, Innovate, Regenerate and Transform, E and PDE 2022

Conference

Conference24th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Disrupt, Innovate, Regenerate and Transform, E and PDE 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
Period8/09/229/09/22

Keywords

  • ADHD
  • attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
  • fidget toy
  • learning effectiveness

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
  • Education

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