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Keynote
at Interaction Design and Children 2003 (IDC2003),
Preston, UK, 1st-3rd July 2003
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abstract
This paper explores children's understanding as a resource and inspiration for interface design and beyond.
From children we can understand innate intelligences and skills, including a sense of number and the nature of play.
Play is possibly one of the origins of imagination, which in turn is essential for our own creative thought.
Surprisingly few adults engage in creative play, but it is when adult-like rationality and child-like imagination meet that we can best produce effective and innovative solutions.
Even writing a paper has aspects of playfulness, such as the puzzle of phrasing an abstract in exactly one hundred words... or so
keywords
play, imagination, creativity, virtual crackers
Alan Dix 15/6/2003
