Perancangan Buku Visual Interaktif Sebagai Upaya Mengelola dan Meningkatkan Kecerdasan Emosional Anak Usia Dini

Designing an Interactive Visual Book as an Effort to Manage and Improve The Emotional Intelligence of Early Childhood

Abstract

Emotional development is an important aspect that influences a child's ability to adapt to their surrounding environment. This means that emotional development must start from an early age so that children are able to identify and communicate the emotions they are feeling. Someone who has emotional intelligence is said to be able to recognize themselves and have good self-control.  This can affect a person's ability to adapt because a person will be able to express their emotions well regarding the situation they are experiencing. Therefore, the role of parents is important to provide appropriate stimulation according to the child's growth and development, one of which is by playing. In this case, media is needed for children as play and learning activities. So media in the form of books is needed as a form of effort to introduce and manage emotions to children through an interactive visual book learning media approach. In this design, several methods were used, namely, literature study through journals, online media, depth interviews with relevant sources, observation and experimental studies. The result of this design is an interactive visual book with the concept of learning children's emotional development with interactive elements in it and packaged in a story. This aims to make it easier for the target audience to follow the information and learning about recognizing emotions contained in the book. Through this interactive visual book, it is hoped that it will become an alternative media to support parents in introducing and managing emotions to young children.