| Summary: | 博士 === 國立雲林科技大學 === 設計學研究所 === 103 === Accidents are a leading cause of death to preschool children in Taiwan. There are thousands of children unfortunately killed or injured because of fire every year worldwide (Peden et al., 2008). According to the statistics, about two events monthly that children play with fire because of neglect and lack of safety education in Taiwan. Accidents are a constant threat to the lives of children, because preschool children are accident prone, this study targets on preschool children ages form 4 to 6 and their recognition of warning signs. This study consists of two surveys. The expressions of warning signs survey attempted to explore how preschool children use drawings to express the image of “do not play with fire”. The cognitions of warning signs survey used a questionnaire to determine children’s understanding of warning signs; and interview method was conducted with the subjects to verify the extent of their comprehension.
In the expressions of warning signs, the results Among the expressions of “do not play with fire,” a “scene of fire” was mostly drew by the 4 and 6-year-old children, who mainly portrayed scenarios depicting the harms caused by playing with fire; “do not play with fire” was used by the 5-year-old children, who mainly used images to express the concept. In terms of the visual representation of “do not play with fire,” the 6-year-old children tended to use symbol representation, mainly the cross; the 5-year-old children tended to use action representation, mainly the palm.
In the cognitions of warning signs, the results reveal that preschool children’s understanding of warning pictograms is tightly linked with their life experience and age. Most of the preschool children were able to recognize palm and triangle frame images, and “red” color as indicating warning. The differences among 4 and 5-year-olds children recognized “palm” the most as a prohibit sign, whereas 6-year-olds children recognized “cross” the most. Using simple and concrete images are able to inform children of possible injury, which effectively achieves the educational goals of these images. Therefore, based on the results of these investigations, which suggests that while designing and educating of children warning signs in the future, it should take the results of this study as reference.
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