Kids In Space

Daniel Fitton from Lancashire

Worked on Hermes Photo display stuff at Lancaster

http://eprints.comp.lancs.ac.uk/1058/1/p47-cheverst.pdf
http://eprints.comp.lancs.ac.uk/742/2/mhci_short_n.pdf
http://eprints.comp.lancs.ac.uk/742/2/mhci_short_n.pdf

Now lecture at University of Central Lancashire - ChiCI child computer interaction group.

Alston Observatory -
25 children with Wii motes in Planetarium -
educational multi-user games.
how to interact.
control mapping.

working with kids developed idears for 4 games which he went away and developed 2 Wii games, using 4 pads. Then evaluated - used smilies + would you play it again.

Preferred faster buttons to slower gestures

Kids really wanted something to shoot at.
finding what they where controlling was problematic
Hard to develop gestures ( sounds like needs some kind of tool kit to me ).

GOT Microsoft Surface

Game with pipes leaking

Surface hard to move around - initally gender in-balance for collaboration. Did boys get board more quickly or just less coordinated.

Children  liked chess games on the surface.

what is it about the flatness that seems to afford 'thinking' or board games... 

Children