A study on perceptions of preschool Children’s furniture design: Pictorial stimuli experiment

Industrial Technology Department, Phranakhon Rajabhat University, 10220 Bangkhan, BKK, Thailand

^* Corresponding author: pornchai_04@yahoo.com.

Abstract

The preschool center there is a place for educational topreschool children before they begin compulsory education at primary school. The different of the preschool children’s furniture will affect the different perceptions of preferences and behaviors of children in the classroom. The furniture that relating the satisfaction of children. It will become the part of stimulus that attracts and motivates children and also an appropriate physical elements to encourage a learning environment. The research found that the different elements of design on the preschool children’s furniture affect the perceptions of children they prefer the follow: warm colors on children’s desk and chair while cool colors on bookshelves, and non-pattern, natural (animal) form and natural (wood) material on children’s desk, children’s chair and bookshelves.The study results can help designers in their selection of elements of design on the preschool children’s furniture, specially for classroom in the preschool center.