How to Be Friends with The Spider
Su Hyun Jung
An Interactive Playset for Children with Arachnophobia
This project assists children aged four to six with arachnophobia through an interactive and entertaining linear design project. The final goal is to help stakeholders overcome arachnophobia so that they can enjoy outdoor activities and stay in a place where spiders appear without frustration. The design deliverable is a high-fidelity prototype of a children’s playset, including an interactive e-book and three activities connecting to the storyline of the e-book. The playsets will be in three stages, each stage having three different episodes. In the first stage, users will focus on becoming familiar with a spider character, Coco, and learning spiders are not aggressive insects while in their house, the spider web. Stage two will assist users in achieving a goal, encountering more numbers of spiders at once, alongside stage three which phases users into facing realistic-looking spiders.
As to how the phobia therapy section starts, clients will have to take a parent-guided self-assessment to check their level of anxiety, avoidance, fear, and spider-related beliefs. The grades are calculated from 0 to 10, and the playset’s stages and episodes will be determined based on the assessment result. Stakeholders must report their status every time they play with playsets and check their recovery process.
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A PLAYSET FOR THOSE WHO HAVE ARACHNOPHOBIA
How to Be Friends with The Spider
STEP ONE
Parent-guide
Self-Assessment
A parent-guided self-assessment kit keep tracks of children’s levels of anxiety, fear, avoidance and spider-related beliefs on a scale from 0 to 10.
STEP TWO
QR code
The QR code inside the playset allows children to simply access the e-book by scanning it via iPad or other tablets.
STEP THREE
E-Book
The QR code inside the playset allows children to simply The e-book itself contains activity videos following its storyline. The present box button on the right top corner will indicate when to do the correct activities!
STEP FOUR
Three Activities
Guide videos asks children if they are ready to encounter Coco, or else they will ask children to stop if they are not feeling okay with this play.
HOW TO CHOOSE THE CORRECT STAGE
Three Stages
Playset’s stages and episodes will be determined based on the parent-guide self-assessment result.
First Stage
Users will focus on becoming familiar with a spider character, Coco, and learning spiders are not aggressive insects while in their house, the spider web.
Second Stage
Stakeholders will work on achieving a goal, encountering more numbers of spiders at once.
