玩遊戲是維持良好情緒與心理健康的關鍵。尤其是兒童自發性的玩耍，對孩童的平衡發展至關重要。本研究作者提出一個專為孩童設計的數位遊樂場提案，其設計目的為讓兒童身處開放式的遊戲環境，促進玩伴之間的社交互動並一起探索與創造屬於自己的新遊戲。
實驗過程中，兒童與玩伴的遊戲模式將是研究觀察重點。研究者期望藉由數位媒材的輔助，兒童能受到啟發而建立屬於自己的玩法，並且增加玩伴之間遊戲互動型態，又能促使兒童進行團體遊戲。有關開放式數位遊戲素材之設計，本研究提出研究問題如下：兒童如何使用數位媒材來創造自己的遊戲？數位媒材如何影響兒童在遊戲場玩遊戲時的互動行為？
通過迭代設計方法，初始設計原型將提供七到十一歲兒童一起進行團體遊戲。經過實地測試與訪談，在開放式的數位遊戲環境裡，漸進式的改變遊戲顯示參數，有助於孩童專注於新玩法的發想，並能增加玩伴之間的互動頻率，延長遊戲體驗。

Play is at the heart of emotional wellbeing and mental health. Child-initiated play in particular is critical to the balanced development of children. The major purpose of the study is creating a play environment for children that support both structured and free play.

To assess the core values of the study, it mainly focused on two major concerns, how do children use digital play material to create their own games, how digital playground impacts children’s play patterns and social interaction between children? This research followed an iterative design approach, the prototype development has gone through two iterations for playtesting.

During playtesting, the action and conversation of 12 children age 7 to 11 has been observed and analyzed. Throughout the qualitative data analysis, projection with gradually changed parameters of display contents has supported the social play and interaction between players in the development of new game structure process.

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