Design and Research of Children’s Robot Based on Kansei Engineering

ABSTRACT

Under the background of the spread of COVID-19, there has been a shift from offline education to online education. Online education is rapidly becoming large-scale in a short time, and its related hardware and software markets are expanding rapidly. The development of this kind of online education hardware carrier represented by children’s robot has become a hot spot in the industry at this time, but there are still some problems in its design, such as ignoring the emotional needs of users. This study first focuses on the user’s function and emotional needs through market research and user research, then uses the method of Kansei engineering to select a certain sample of existing children’s robots, conducts Kansei vocabulary research through SD method, and analyzes the data results through SPSS, so as to summarize the modeling semantic keywords. Finally, from the perspective of Kansei Engineering, a new practical design scheme of children’s accompanying robot is proposed. The feasibility and effectiveness of the design practice are verified by the satisfaction survey. © 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.