Oct 16
Internet is the current public town square. Gary visualized how much we share.
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Aug 18
KidZui is building a safe internet-experience for children. First they build the kids-safe browser “KidZui”, and now ZuiTube.
full article @ CNN
Jul 13
Camera’s for kids not interesting enough below $100: Manufacturers seem to keep picture quality and durability as mutually exclusive features. Even the cheapest mobile phone has a better camera than the more expensive kid’s camera!
An observation by Terry Lane on Stuff.
Jun 26
On the risk of publishing old news, still thought it was interesting to blog this article (released feb 09) in the light of the previous message:
Nature Words Dropped From Children’s Dictionary
To make way for modern tech terms such as BlackBerry, blog, voicemail and broadband, the latest edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary has opted to drop terms pertaining to nature. No longer can a child check this dictionary and learn more about the blackberry, dandelion, acorn, heron, otter, magpie, sycamore, or willow.
Jun 09
Being a speedy cyclist I hope this phenomenon stays on the other side of the Canal: British police is using a lasergun to catch speedy cyclists in Bournemouth; preferred speed is 10mph (16,1 km/h). That is s-l-o-w—m-o-t-i-o-n!
Okay okay, that is on a promenade along the seaside.
Jun 02
Very excited to hear Hiroshi Ishiguro. He is professor and director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory in Osaka, Japan. In robot development, Professor Ishiguro concentrates on the idea of making a robot that is as similar as possible to a live human being. He is famous for creating various replicas of persons, such as himself.
On the side of UX-methods it is interesting to hear Gilbert Cockton speak for our community. At the CHI Nederland Conference 2009: Change! Gilbert Cockton will talk about ‘Quadricentric Design’, arguing that a design process should not proactively privilege one perspective, but shift attention as needed between designed artifacts, design purpose, design beneficiaries and design evaluation.
More keynote speakers @ chi-conferentie.nl
Modestly bringing to your attention that I will be presenting too, track Reflection/Methods; reflecting on the use of creative methods in HCI.
May 28
On May 13 a very interesting symposium on co-creation, design ethnography, and contextmapping: designing for, with, and from user experiences was organized in Delft.
The symposium was a great success, among the visitors over 150 people from industry and over 200 from universities all over the Netherlands, and several foreign guests. Because of the large response, many had to be disappointed unfortunately.
For those interested in the presentations: the morning presentations by Liz Sanders, Jacob Buur, Froukje Sleeswijk Visser, and the 10 graduate designers have been put online on the collegerama website. Later this summer the proceedings of the day, including the findings of the afternoon tie-in workshops will become available.
Mar 11
Klokhuis picked up on designing with children. Any child that wants to ask a question to designers about design or construction works is welcome to ask a question to professors and other scientists and experts.
Interested? Take a look at the klokhuis website.
Aug 07
This businessweek article explains why children should have a computer: When Chiara Jannotta Rothenberg was just 18 months old, her parents started sitting her on their laps to watch photo slide shows on the home computer. By the time she was 2, Chiara was slowly punching keyboard buttons with her little fingers in Microsoft Word. “She wanted to learn what mommy was doing,” explains her mother, Jacqueline.
Children learn from imitation and exploration to do what their parents do and to become what their parents have become. From that perspective it seems a good idea to support the children with a kid’s PC and the like. However, on the risk of being conventional, I would like to keep them from computers as long as possible.