Interactive toys interfere with the development of children?
It is common to see a child talking to legos, Barbies and Action Man or nenucos. However, these toys do not respond or interact in any way. But this reality is changing.The advent technology brought a new reality for children when it comes to jokes. Interactive programs already exist, with various characters, who keep dialogues with children or programs, in the form of animals, which are very real. But these programs are beneficial or harmful to children's development in the 21st century?For a new generation of children, this type of interactive toys can be the future of games. Although, in the future, we can watch many of the scenarios that we used to watch science fiction movies, there are other more immediate concerns. Since it has been hard to study the side effects of this new trend among toys, nobody knows exactly how these objects can affect a child's development-for better, worse or have a neutral effect.To better understand these impacts, which are not yet scientifically proven, the Mashale spoke with several builders of toys and child development specialists.This type of toy is aimed mostly at children in the early stages of mental development and, although there is no scientific evidence, theories about how the interactive toys can affect children are many.Oren Jacob worked at Pixar for more than 20 years. Later, after leaving the company, created with a friend, who also worked at Pixar, a company, the Toy Talk. The most famous toy is Winston Show, a interactive program in the form of a cartoon that listen to children and interacts with them. According to Jacob, this toy can stimulate language development â€" which translates into extra points when it comes to persuading on the purchase of the product. Once children start talking love to have conversations, even meaningless, the program allows them to talk about what you want the cartoon will listen and always respond. "You can express yourself out loud and have a game partner that responds always and never tires is a very attractive option," says Jacob. "That's how you learn to speak".Lauren Sherman, researcher, agrees that this kind of toys can help to a certain extent. This researcher working in the Children's Digital Media Center, in Los Angeles, a research lab that focuses on the effects of digital media on the development of children and young people. While recognizing the benefits of these toys, Sherman notes that interact with a program is not the same thing as interact with people, then that is not entirely advisable to replace human contact by contact with interactive programs.Kaveri Subrahmanyam, associate director of the same laboratory, indicates that children tend to form ties with the characters and interactive programmes, the investigator, considers that these emotional ties may interfere with the "informational development of empathy", since contact with a wide range of emotions is smaller. Despite the benefits and harms of interactive toys are not fully proven, researchers advise parents to regrarem the use of these toys for children.Photo: Thijs Boy/Creative Commons
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