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Games are the central activities in the children’s life; they can enhance every kind of developments through the use of gaming. Furthermore, the main learning source for children to learn is through the use of game equipment; therefore, the attractions for game equipment are equivalently important. In the previous research, many studies explored on the cognitive aspects and safety planning on children playing grounds, few studies focused on the colors, color complexity, height, activity size, model scale, gaming behavior, children slide modeling, and angular magnitude of game equipment, which refer to eight factors are the preferences that children use when gaming.
The children in the city usually face many restrictions, such as the dangerous streets and roads, therefore the children playgrounds in the park are the important locations for children to play and act as the important role. This thesis used four city parks in Tainan as the main discussing places, which refer to Tainan park, Shi-Pei-Wen park, Nan-Nen park, Youth park, they are all large-scale parks in Tainan, the surroundings, game equipments, and varieties of these four parks are in accordance with themselves.
Children are restricted to their abilities to show and hard to communicate with strangers, which caused them not able to use questionnaires and interviews; therefore this study used the observatory method and video recording way to study the whole procedure, and took the study samples. This study used four children playground of forty boys and forth girls to discuss and analyze the different genders and different factors, which can offer the designers of children playground to plan and related researcher as the references for future research.
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