Paper Info
Title
Designing technology for young children: what we can learn from theories of cognitive development
Abstract
The majority of guidelines and principles for design of technology are aimed at products for adults. The limited guidelines available for design of young children's technology do not focus sufficiently on age-related requirements or they offer high-level advice that is only useful in the planning stages of design. This paper reports on research aiming to develop a set of guidelines for the design of technology for children aged five to eight years. We believe that the existing knowledge base on child development provides an ample starting point for setting up a useful framework of such guidelines. This paper demonstrates how the knowledge contained in psychological theories of child development can be translated into guidelines for the design of technology.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1145/1456659.1456668
SAICSIT Conf.
Keywords
Field
DocType
child development,high-level advice,useful framework,cognitive development,young child,psychological theory,limited guideline,paper report,existing knowledge base,planning stage,age-related requirement,technology,design,knowledge based systems,cognitive skills,knowledge base
Child development,Computer science,Knowledge-based systems,Knowledge management,Knowledge base,Management science,Cognitive development
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.48
6
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Helene Gelderblom1709.19
Paula Kotzé237049.88