CHI, 2005 - Special Interest Group: Tangible Interfaces for Children

This image is from a team project I have been working on with Stanford's MediaX program to create a doll which facilitates social interaction between pre-school children. The work has led me to helping to host a SIG at CHI 2005 with Oren Zuckerman, Allison Druin and Glenda Revelle.

The session will take place on Tuesday afternoon, 4/5, from 4:30-6 pm. If you are going to CHI, it would be great to see you there. If interested in making a short presentation, please drop an email to bolas at well.com.

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CHI, 2005 - Special Interest Group: Tangible Interfaces for Children

Oren Zuckerman, Allison Druin, Mark Bolas and Glenda Revelle would like to invite you to join our Special Interest Group, Tangible User Interfaces for Children, at HI 2005. This session will take place on Tuesday afternoon, 4/5, from :30-6 pm.

The agenda we are planning includes brief presentations by Oren, Allison, Mark and Glenda about tangible interface projects that we are currently working on. Then we would like to open it up for other participants to share their projects. Please e-mail bolas at well.com if you are interested in attending this SIG and have something you'd like to present.

After the brief project presentations, we will have a group discussion about issues involved in developing tangible interfaces for kids, including topics like the following:

- Advantages and disadvantages of tangible interfaces vs. traditional GUI interfaces. What are some of the factors, conditions, target users and so on that might make either tangible interfaces or traditional GUI interfaces more appropriate?

- What learning and/or entertainment domains might be the most appropriate for tangible interfaces?

- What has been your experience with some of the challenges in developing tangible interfaces, and how to address them?

If you have other discussion topics to suggest, please e-mail them to bolas at well.com and we will try to include them.

Thanks, and hope to see you in Portland!
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