Resultados "interaction design"
Apps for early childhood. Tips and best practices for choosing and creating quality interactive content.
Touch Gesture Performed by Children under 3 Years Old When Drawing and Coloring on a Tablet.
Children under 3 are enthusiastic users of mobile devices and have the ability to emulate a number of the gestures adults use on touch screens, according to the literature on Child-Computer Interaction (CCI). Nevertheless, relatively few studies have focused on the spontaneous interaction of children with screens. The objective of this empirical research is to study unstructured interactions of children under 3 with two apps that permit free drawing and coloring. Observation includes the first gesture used for interaction and the use of on-screen tools (e.g. color palette).
Apps & Diverse Learning Needs
This week has taken place the XI Latin International Congress of Social Communication at Faculty of Political, Social and Communication Sciences of La Laguna University (Canary Islands)
Mariona Grané (LMI UB) and Lucrezia Crescenzi (LMI UVIC) have presented a communication entitled Improving the Interaction Design of Apps for Children with Diverse Learning Needs about App2five R&D project that they co-coordinate.
We start App2five, an R & D project
The App2five project has just started as an R & D Projects of Knowledge Generation of the state program of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. The project will allow acquiring new knowledge on how to adapt the interactive digital resources to child development (and children with SEN), in order to improve its design and promote the creation and selection of quality content aimed at early childhood.
Visiting Professor
Dr. Juliana Bergman, professor at the Federal University of Santa Caterina in Florianopolis (Brazil), is bringing a post-doctoral research in the LMI group at University of Barcelona since April, with a study about the interaction design of educational materials.
LMI with Kids Barcelona
The LMI with Mariona Grané (LMI-UB) collaborates in Barcelona Kids project from Hospital San Joan de Déu. This project is part of an international project "Disease Impacting Kids and Families Through Science (KIDS)" of the International Children's Advisory Network (ICAN).
KIDS Barcelona gives voice to children and adolescents who participate in clinical trials, in the process of understanding, communication and improvement methods of medical innovation that affect children and young patients.
Paper in Comunicar Journal
The scientific Journal Comunicar Journal, has published the article by Lucrezia Crescenzi (LMI UVIC) and Mariona Grané (LMI UB) titled "An Analysis of the Interaction Design of the Best Educational Apps for Children Aged Zero to Eight".
An Analysis of the Interaction Design of the Best Educational Apps for Children Aged Zero to Eight
The proliferation of mobile devices and their use by children of all ages raises issues among families and educators with regard to their quality and appropriateness. Given the absence of an industry standard or an official ratings system for children’s apps, specialist websites or blogs are frequently consulted when choosing apps.
