Division of Computer Engineering, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India.
Department of Commerce, Satyawati College (Evening), University of Delhi, Delhi, India.
Acta Paediatr. 2018 Aug;107(8):1461-1466. doi: 10.1111/apa.14291. Epub 2018 Mar 20.
Parents sometimes show young children YouTube videos on their smartphones. We studied the interaction of 55 Indian children born between December 2014 and May 2015 who watched YouTube videos when they were 6-24 months old.
The children were recruited by the researchers using professional and personal contacts and visited by the same two observers at four ages, for at least 10 minutes. The observers recorded the children's abilities to interact with touch screens and identify people in videos and noted what videos attracted them the most.
The children were attracted to music at six months of age and were interested in watching the videos at 12 months. They could identify their parents in videos at 12 months and themselves by 24 months. They started touching the screen at 18 months and could press the buttons that appeared on the screen, but did not understand their use. The children preferred watching dance performances by multiple artists with melodical music, advertisements for products they used and videos showing toys and balloons.
Children up to two years of age could be entertained and kept busy by showing them YouTube clips on smartphones, but did not learn anything from the videos.
父母有时会在智能手机上给年幼的孩子看 YouTube 视频。我们研究了 55 名 2014 年 12 月至 2015 年 5 月间出生的印度儿童，他们在 6-24 个月大时观看了 YouTube 视频。
研究人员通过专业和个人联系招募了这些儿童，并由同两名观察员在四个年龄段对其进行了至少 10 分钟的访问。观察员记录了儿童与触摸屏互动的能力以及在视频中识别人物的能力，并记录了最吸引他们的视频。
6 个月大的儿童对音乐视频感兴趣，12 个月大时开始观看视频。他们在 12 个月时可以识别出自己的父母，在 24 个月时可以识别出自己。他们在 18 个月时开始触摸屏幕，并可以点击屏幕上出现的按钮，但不理解其用途。儿童更喜欢观看有旋律音乐的多位艺术家的舞蹈表演、他们使用的产品的广告以及展示玩具和气球的视频。
可以通过在智能手机上向 2 岁以下的儿童播放 YouTube 剪辑来娱乐和吸引他们的注意力，但他们不会从视频中学习任何东西。
