In this research, we would like clarify what scenes grab their interest, or loses their interest
when the children view “Mickey Mouse Clubhouse" "Handy Manny" and ‘'My Friends Tigger and
Pooh" and whether there are any differences according to their age, in order to subjectively evaluate
the appropriateness of the Disney images as educational program and acquire the basic data for
improving the effectiveness.
The image was shown to the children in kindergarten, day-care center and at home and it was
recorded with 3 video cameras. Two factors were calculated; 1) the ratio of children who are paying
attention (attention rate) 2) the ratio of any reaction (reaction rate) (such as responding a question,
pointing, and questioning adults) .
We clarified the following in this research.
* Bouncy music and questions to the audience are necessary in order to get the attention from
young children.
*Young children have a strong tendency to not notice things that they see for the first time.
Repetition of 2 or 3 times is necessary in order for the image to have effective indirect experience.
However, 5 year olds get bored with repetition over 4 times.
* There is a large difference between 3 year olds and 4 year olds and older with the attention span
toward images.
* Children like to see scenes that accidents are about to happen.
* Children do not always like the jokes that adults like.
* Children have higher interest and increased desire to “watch" when popular characters appear at
the beginning of the image.
The image was shown to the children in kindergarten, day-care center and at home and it was
recorded with 3 video cameras. Two factors were calculated; 1) the ratio of children who are paying
attention (attention rate) 2) the ratio of any reaction (reaction rate) (such as responding a question,
pointing, and questioning adults) .
We clarified the following in this research.
* Bouncy music and questions to the audience are necessary in order to get the attention from
young children.
*Young children have a strong tendency to not notice things that they see for the first time.
Repetition of 2 or 3 times is necessary in order for the image to have effective indirect experience.
However, 5 year olds get bored with repetition over 4 times.
* There is a large difference between 3 year olds and 4 year olds and older with the attention span
toward images.
* Children like to see scenes that accidents re about to happen.
* Children do not always like the jokes that adults like
* Children have higher interest and increased desire to “watch" when popular characters appear at
the beginning of the image.