I work with parents who exchange text messages with their kids while the kids are in class at school. I was in a meeting where one person was receiving and sending texts to her daughter. Her daughter was in class but was bored. My co-worker was also obviously bored. Especially as she told us what her daughter was texting and what she was texting back. It definitely derailed the meeting. She even claims that at home, she'll text her daughter to come downstairs for dinner.
Susie -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gavin Burke Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 12:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] teaching young people about usability While its definitely anecdotal, I read in the paper recently that schools in Ireland had to ban phones entirely because while the kids were pretending to pay attention in class, they were in actual fact speed sending each other text messages, all the time keeping the mobile phones out of sight in their pockets! On 17 Apr 2008, at 16:39, Daniel Szuc wrote: > Also be interesting/cool to see what they could teach us :) > > * What sites do they visit? > * How many friends do they speak to per day using the internet? > * Do they use their home phone for speaking to friends or mobile > phone? > * What technology do they own? > * What do they like about it? > * What frustrates them about tech at home? > * What sites do they visit to help with home work? > > etc > > Perhaps see if they can design a UI for something? (see what they > come up with > ;) > Best regards, Gavin Burke http://www.futureaudioworkshop.com ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
