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Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

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Post by ianferrel » Fri, Oct 14, 2011, 1:52 AM UTC

robterrell wrote: post #25

techdemic wrote: post #19

What does a one-year old do on an iPad (or other tablet for that matter)? For those who are parents--are there certain apps/games you let your young ones play around on? Or, is the behavior demonstrated by the child in the video learned primarily by way of observation?

Definitely. There's a number of blogs dedicated to apps for toddlers. Not sure about a one-year-old, but my two-year-old was finger painting, dragging letters onto words, and rearranging dinosaur parts, and browsing YouTube for videos of trash trucks (he got his older sisters to enter the search terms). My original iPad is basically a dedicated kid computer. The older kids write school papers on it (Pages + keyboard…

I love the idea that little kids who love watching garbage trucks are now getting their older siblings to go find Youtube videos of them.

Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

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Post by tptacek » Fri, Oct 14, 2011, 2:20 AM UTC

ArcticCelt wrote: post #27

grannyg00se wrote: post #14

To say she thinks the magazine is a broken iPad is quite a leap. There is nothing to indicate that she thinks it is an iPad. And there is nothing to indicate that she thinks it is "broken". She is simply trying familiar gestures on a similar looking media. Give her magazines for the next couple of days and you may find she tries to turn the iPad over looking for other pages. It's not because she thinks the iPad is a…

Exactly. The only thing that this video proves is that she has the right reaction by analyzing and experimenting with different objects. That's how we learn.

The best part of this was when she tested to see if her finger was still working. This kid is awesome.

Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

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Post by stratospark » Fri, Oct 14, 2011, 2:24 AM UTC

sp332 wrote: post #18

ethank wrote: post #4

My kid tries to pinch zoom everything. Laptops, books, television remotes.

You have to admit, the discoverability of pinch-to-zoom is almost nonexistant. It's impossible to tell if something supports it without trying.

Exploratory trying is a form of discoverability. Plus the whole social context of learning new gestures through friends using similar devices.

I looked at a Blackberry Playbook at the store and tried to use it without having ever seen anyone else use one before. I spent a good 10 minutes trying to figure out how to close an app before finally looking it up online with my iPhone.

Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

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Post by phzbOx » Fri, Oct 14, 2011, 2:37 AM UTC

ethank wrote: post #4

My kid tries to pinch zoom everything. Laptops, books, television remotes.

Hey, my gf (25yo, ph.d in medecine), sometime try to zoom by pinching my macbook screen.. it takes 1-2 secs for her to realize "oh right, this is not the ipad". We always laugh of these moments :D

To be honest, I'm surprised there's not more touchscreen a little bit everywhere. I.e. On the coffeemachine, microwave, etc. It makes it so damn easier as you're not forced to use 1 interface to cover all use cases.. you can simply use a hierarchical smart interface.

Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

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Post by phzbOx » Fri, Oct 14, 2011, 2:42 AM UTC

grannyg00se wrote: post #14

To say she thinks the magazine is a broken iPad is quite a leap. There is nothing to indicate that she thinks it is an iPad. And there is nothing to indicate that she thinks it is "broken". She is simply trying familiar gestures on a similar looking media. Give her magazines for the next couple of days and you may find she tries to turn the iPad over looking for other pages. It's not because she thinks the iPad is a…

It was supposed to be seen as a joke to show how the new generation kids will really look at magazines as "broken touch screen".

And there is nothing to indicate that she thinks it is "broken". ..

Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

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Post by chopsueyar » Fri, Oct 14, 2011, 2:43 AM UTC

grannyg00se wrote: post #14

To say she thinks the magazine is a broken iPad is quite a leap. There is nothing to indicate that she thinks it is an iPad. And there is nothing to indicate that she thinks it is "broken". She is simply trying familiar gestures on a similar looking media. Give her magazines for the next couple of days and you may find she tries to turn the iPad over looking for other pages. It's not because she thinks the iPad is a…

When I was her age, I knew that grilled cheese sandwiches worked in VHS players.

Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

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Post by darnton » Fri, Oct 14, 2011, 2:49 AM UTC

grannyg00se wrote: post #14

To say she thinks the magazine is a broken iPad is quite a leap. There is nothing to indicate that she thinks it is an iPad. And there is nothing to indicate that she thinks it is "broken". She is simply trying familiar gestures on a similar looking media. Give her magazines for the next couple of days and you may find she tries to turn the iPad over looking for other pages. It's not because she thinks the iPad is a…

I wouldn't even read that much into it. Infants learn a whole range of new gestures as they get finer motor control.

Newborns flail around not even knowing they've got arms. Then they learn to guide their arms and hit things. Then they grab. After a while they develop a sort of lobster pinch with the thumb against four fingers and can pick things up. Then they develop the thumb and forefinger pinch and can gently manipulate small things.

I'm pretty sure my nine-month old son would behave just like this, even though he's never seen an iPad. In his technologically-deprived state he contents himself with examining crumbs and bits of fluff from the carpet.

Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Oct 14, 2011, 3:11 AM UTC

whatusername wrote: post #30

ethank wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What amazes me is how GOOD my son is on the iPad and iPhone. He turned 2 in June. He can unlock the phone, knows the passcode, can get into any app and knows the "flick" gesture. On his iPad, he can navigate to his Sesame Street episodes or random Pixar movies. I learned computers on an Apple IIe and a Mac, and this is basically that for him. To think that by next year we'll have retina iPads, by the time he's "using…

I learned computers on a Mac+. At two I could load the disk into the drive, load up Paint Shop Pro, "paint" a painting. The lesson isn't that iDevice's (or apple products) are amazingly intuitive -- it's that 2 year olds are quite smart and good at learning/playing/exploring.

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Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

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Post by nvarsj » Fri, Oct 14, 2011, 3:11 AM UTC

whatusername wrote: post #30

ethank wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What amazes me is how GOOD my son is on the iPad and iPhone. He turned 2 in June. He can unlock the phone, knows the passcode, can get into any app and knows the "flick" gesture. On his iPad, he can navigate to his Sesame Street episodes or random Pixar movies. I learned computers on an Apple IIe and a Mac, and this is basically that for him. To think that by next year we'll have retina iPads, by the time he's "using…

I learned computers on a Mac+. At two I could load the disk into the drive, load up Paint Shop Pro, "paint" a painting. The lesson isn't that iDevice's (or apple products) are amazingly intuitive -- it's that 2 year olds are quite smart and good at learning/playing/exploring.

I'm around small kids a lot, and I'd be impressed if a 2 year old could operate a keyboard/mouse. An iPad on the other hand... no problem. I think it does say something about the intuitiveness of a touch screen.

Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

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Post by cellularmitosis » Fri, Oct 14, 2011, 3:18 AM UTC

antimora wrote: post #2

related but happened to me: once I tried to open my house door with my car remote key =)

that happened to steven wright too. except that his house started. so he took it for a drive. parked it on the freeway and screamed at everyone to get off of his driveway.