Sawatte Oshite Yubi-Aso-Book “Chon Chon Chon”

This Digital Ehon is based on the picure book “Sawatte Oshite Yubi-Aso-Book Chon Chon Chon” that readers can play by touching and pushing with fingers to rhythemical words appears in this book. The main feature of this app is focusing on the relation of baby’s “pointing” and “development of language”. Eggs are cracked and sounds by touching.Easy to understand, and fun with its colors and sound.

It is great honored to be rated as the grand prize of the award. This iPad app, “Sawatte Oshite Yubi-Aso-Book Chon Chon Chon”, is based on the picture book which focusing on baby’s finger pointing prompts the development of language.The device of changing illustrations by touching which attract baby’s interest is come out of the idea by the pubilisher, and the narration by real parents and children which can make delightful mood like parents and children are playing together is based on the idea of the designer in charge of production. We continue to make Digital Ehon which include ideas specific to digital with considering opinions of authers and pubulishrs.

Simple, but everyone can enjoy with the word of “Fun!”. Even 1 or 2 age kids can touch and play with fun, and also aduls can discover something unexpected. This familiarity and profound that let people who see and play the app interpret by several ways, and that shows the true worth of Digital Ehon. It could be imagined a pleasant scene that toddlers would learn faster than their parents and tell them or grandparents how to use the app with surrounding tablets. (Rika Kayama, psychiatrist, proffessor of Rikkyo University)

Except examination standards of this award, I chose “Sawatte Oshite Yubi-Aso-Book Chon Chon Chon” as the winner from the viewpoint of “child-caring design” that I have interested in personaly and with considering the relation between “information of reason” and “information of emotion”. This app brightly visualizes easy stories such as “the birth of a baby bird” and “popping out notes and sounds of piano with tapping keyboards” with specific functions of Digital Ehon and easy usabillity with finger that young todders can play. I think that the app is well designed as child-caring that activate brain via visual and audio sensation and accelerate development of functions such as “language” which develop actively during this period, “symbol” and “social refference” with finger sensation. (Noboru Kobayashi, honorary professor of Tokyo University, honorary director of national children’s hospital)