It was a 2 member project, covering four locations representing a cross section of socioeconomic of children. Chennai, Trichy as the metro and big town and Harihar and Bhanuvalli (both in Davangere dist. Of Karnataka) as small town and village - these were my responsibility.The project tries to answer these questions:
· What do children play, when and why?
· When do they change their game/ playpreferences?
· What motivates the change? Is there a group influence?
· Are there distinct differences in preferences of girls and boys?
It aims at being a point of reference for further in detail study related to the activities of children, cutting across the broad socio-economic spectrum of India, tracing the trends of favorite games, TV channels, books read, tastes and preferences and how these differ according to age, gender and location.
Around 40 children each, of various age groups, were interviewed and observed in both locations. And the data fed into Excel to come up with comparative analysis across different categories. Also a photographic documentation of interesting games that they play was done.The study was a response to the need felt to understand the Indian children in the age group of 7 to 16 years for arriving at different design strategies by the toy manufacturers. But the findings are of importance to anyone who has to do anything with Indian children.
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