Visions for Children's Furniture as an Industrial Design Product - A Descriptive Research Based on the Survey Results of Children' Room and Furniture Conditions, and Perceptual Attitute toward the Furniture -

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association 1986;24(4):147-162.

논문편 : 산업제품으로서의 아동가구 비젼 설정 및 디자인 개발을 위한 연구 - 아동실 및 아동가구 실태조사와 아동가구에 대한 반응조사를 중심으로 -

이연숙 , 오찬옥 , 유성희 , 김영주

Visions for Children's Furniture as an Industrial Design Product - A Descriptive Research Based on the Survey Results of Children' Room and Furniture Conditions, and Perceptual Attitute toward the Furniture -

Youn Sook Lee , Chan Ohk Oh , Seong Hee Yoo , Young Joo Kim

ABSTRACT

This research has dual purposes. First, it was designed to determine the level of children's spatial environment in the residences, thereby, to make a vision for children's furniture as an industrial design product. Second, it was intened to find out the children's perceptual pattern toward the furniture, thereby to give some implications for future design development. For the second purpose, descriptors were screened with construct validity and their factor structure was identified. The subjects were 1,197 children from 1st grade of elemantary school through 3rd grade of middle school, and their 1,197 parents for the first purpose, and 560 children from 6th grades of elemantary school and 3rd grade of middle school for the second purpose. The first parts of findings were 1) present interests of parents of household above middle income level in Seoul in making their children's spatial environment desirable is quite high. 2) Space segregation stage in terms of physical and conceptual aspects showed very fast development, that is, there will have been very good changes for children's room to be a very well furnished and independent space for them. 3) Children's opinions were quite well reflected when purchasing the present furniture, and this tendency seemed to be more likely happend in future. These findings mentioned above gave and confirmed the visions for future children's furnished environment. The second parts of findings were such that the perceptual pattern for furniture by children showed aesthetic design appearance, functionality and durability, and the characteristic of line. This result impliated especially that designers should be every careful to manipulate or use the line of the furniture products. The 22 representative descriptors selected can be used as an evaluation instrument for furniture products.