Digital Kids onBranding, Privacyand Technology Bias
MinneWebCon 2013
@andrewsmyk
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“People two, three or four years apart are having completely different experiences with technology,”
Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tocaboca/5523596357/
10 - 6 - 3
11 - 7 - 4Born during
evolving techtechnology is gesture based
Born 1 year
before the
iPhone
the research
the research
48 interviews3 birthday parties
1 girls soccer team2 class room visits
the research
historical view
the research
the research
technology clusters
We preselect the technology we give to kids
Kids select the technology with the lowest level of
abstraction
the research
“They have their own brand new one.”- Goldstone
“My daughter had her own iPad since she was 1 years old.”
- gary2kool
methods
A/B Testing
A/B with Tablets
2 iPads (I & II)
2 Android Tablets
same apps installed
outcome
variation
iPad Only
A/B with Web Sites
Two versions of a site created(desktop vs responsive)
95%abandon rate
content
content
technology
Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral. Kranzberg’s six laws of technology.
“This is my iPad.”
Hands on. Minds on. Authentic?
kids
“Why is there a phone in your camera?”
Technology associationsphone = camera, Kindle = book
Kids 2 to 6 are task focused, not necessarily goal focused.
analog and digital worlds
“The movement between digital and traditional analog tools as means of expression and creation comes naturally to kids. Their movement is seamless and effortless; we’ve lost this skill as adults.”
- Andrew Smykwww.andrewsmyk.com/research/kids-and-robots/
Prototyping
Collaborative drawing
Final Version
branding
name some search engines?
Googlethe internet
There are other search engines.
“Really? Why?”
genericTM
privacy
16 girls16 iPods
16 girls16 iPods
16 girls16 iPods
16 girls16 iPods
Within the peer group, there was no privacy
bias
Touch over typeadaptive/responsive content mobile over desktop