Tangible User Interface for Children - An Overview: - Reaction

This is a very cool article because education and a good learning environment is the most important thing for young children and bringing TUI’s to it is making education more of a social and interactive experience as well as supporting their curiosities, their love of repetition and their need for control. This article talked about Ubiquitous Computing which is the method of enhancing computer use by making many computers available throughout the physical environment, but making them effectively invisible to the user. This can be applied to computer science, engineering and social science and is now being encouraged to be more widely used in schools around the world. The word “Edutainment” stood out to me which is a way to bring more technology to schools by making education a game like experience. If the technology in interactive it will make learning more fun which will get the childs mind more engaged on the subject. Education using TUI’s has child's such as requiring little time to learn how to use the interface, offers an alternative way of interaction which is fun for children, supports trial and error activity and is interactive and can develop teamwork and support a fun social experience. I think this was a very important article to read because learning how to make technology work with helping children learn educational lessons instead of distracting them is a process that will definitely benefit this world.