On Jan 9, 2008, at 20:44 , Manuel Strehl wrote: > Hi again, > > thanks for the replies! > >> Have you been to www.vpri.org >> It is the website from the View Points Research Institute, from >> Alan Kay. > > No, not yet, indeed. It looks good, thank you for the pointer!
More on Alan Kay's work with children can be found at http://squeakland.org/school/HTML/essays/essays.html The Etoys activity on the XO is developed by VPRI: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Etoys >> Have you checked out the Human Interface Guide page? > > Yes, I did. It was actually one of the links I mentioned. > > At our seminar we had lots of guidelines on how to develop for > older people (big font, high contrast, no fast movements, explain > GUI elements, ...) and methods on how to create software that is > useful for the elder (take a look at the UTOPIA project, <http:// > www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/projects/utopia/>). I'm missing > something similar for childrens' software in general and especially > (because that's OLPC's main target group) at the publications I > found related to OLPC. OLPC's idea of a children's laptop can be traced directly back to the "Dynabook" as sketched in 1972: http://www.mprove.de/diplom/gui/Kay72a.pdf http://www.newmediareader.com/book_samples/nmr-26-kay.pdf A dissertation on that topic was finished in 2004, a tiny bit too early for mentioning OLPC unfortunately, but a definite must-read: http://thinkubator.ccsp.sfu.ca/Dynabook/ - Bert - _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
