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Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

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Post by serge2k »

chopsueyar wrote: post #36
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.

When I was a little older I learned that remotes belong in microwaves.

My parents learned that VCR remotes where expensive in the early 90s.

Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

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Post by dagw »

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?

My one year old loves looking a pictures on the iPad. But she is really just as fascinated with flicking the home screens back and forth and seeing what happens when she presses the different little pictures.

Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

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Post by nasmorn »

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?

Imitating their parents. Something that I believe is quite deep in our brains, children can't help it. My daughter imitates how my wife picks up the phone when she answers a call. It is hilarious they are a perfect little mirror for all the things you constantly do. They copy them like a true comedian, overdoing the most significant aspect and dismissing the "context" that make you feel normal while usually doing them.

Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

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Post by hermannj314 »

When my daughter was one years old she thought the box that the iPad came in was a broken iPad. I didn't jump to any conclusions about the superfluousness of packaging or my daughter's inability to understand a world with boxes.

I did, however, tell her to think outside of the box. She didn't get the joke. Probably because she was one. Also, the joke wasn't that funny.

Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

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Post by ugh »

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 don’t quite understand what your issue is. The language in the video doesn’t seem at odd with your statements.

Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

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Post by hopeless »

ethank wrote: post #21
callmevlad wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same thing here. My daughters (1 and 2) walk up to the TV, and try to swipe to the next photo or touch the video to pause it.

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…

"his iPad"

My kids will often unlock my phone to get at the Peppa Pig game but something inside me still thinks it's not right that a 2yo has his own iPad. I don't know what. It's probably irrational but I can't help feeling that books and posters are more appropriate. Of course, time will tell. I wonder if the games and interactive media on an iPad might shorten the already minuscule attention span of children :-\

Edit to add: I didn't want this to sound like I was critical of your parenting. In fact I'm probably jealous. We bought a poster on the Solar System for our 3.5yo daughter because she spotted Jupiter next to the moon yesterday and wanted to know what it was. And now I wonder whether I should have tried to buy an iPad and StarWalk?!

Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

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Post by icebraining »

wnight wrote: post #55
tptacek wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

We're all born scientists. Then religion and TV happen.

http://i.imgur.com/vexgz.gif

Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

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Post by icebraining »

phzbOx wrote: post #34
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 ca…

My microwave is already "touch". Why would it need a screen?

Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

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Post by dmarinoc »

Last Christmas we bought a laptop for my nephew. Few days later came to my wife to ask her how to save a file.

- You just need to click on the "diskette" icon. - Aunt, what's a "diskette"?

I bet in few years most UX designers will use the Dropbox logo instead of a diskette icon to show where you need to click to save a file :D

Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

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Post by sp332 »

stratospark wrote: post #33
sp332 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Maybe I used the wrong word. Affordances? The "affordance" of pinch-to-zoom is a flat surface.
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