--- task_categories: - image-classification - text-classification language: - en - tr tags: - Drawing - Emotion - Children - Primary - Secondary - Sketch - Happiness - Sadness - ADHD - Psychology - Drawings - Kids - KIDO - Emotion Analysis - Children Drawings - Gender - Educational - Machine Learning - Deep Learning - Children Paintings - multi - modal pretty_name: KIDO Children Drawings --- KIDO: Emotion Analysis of Children’s Drawings About KIDO is a novel dataset for analyzing how children express emotions through hand-drawn images and self-reported reflections. It contains 5,430 children’s drawings, each paired with text indicating whether the drawing represents happiness or sadness. Unlike prior datasets that focus only on digital drawings from tablets, KIDO captures natural scanned hand-drawn expressions. Details can be found in our paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11151239 Contents drawings: 5,430 children's drawings reflections: Children’s written reflections (Turkish+English Text) Emotion label + demographic info (education level, gender) Labels Emotion: Happiness / Sadness Education: Primary / Secondary Gender: Male / Female Citation If you use this dataset, please cite: 
@ARTICLE{KidoCiftciEtal2025,
author={Çiftçi, Serdar and Karci, Hasari and Karaca, Neval and Söylemez, Büşra and Koçakoğlu, Halil},
journal={IEEE Access},
title={Emotion Analysis of Children’s Drawings},
year={2025},
volume={13},
pages={159730-159748},
doi={10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3606359}
}