Re: [kidsUI] Browser example

[Doug Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Sanjay Chandrasekharan wrote:

> I liked what Ken is doing at Toontalk! I would think that's the way for
> us to go.

> The "slapping on" an Agent strategy doesn't work. This is because the
> introduction of an animated character changes the whole user
> experience.

That makes sense for new software, even if it makes it harder to design. 
However, we'll inevitably have to adapt some existing software for kids'
use.  As you say, tossing singing, dancing characters onto a window manager
or a word processor won't work.  So what things could be done to these
existing programs to make them work more as kids would expect them to?  Are
there existing programs for kids that are considered to have especially
good interfaces?  Is there someone in particular we ought to ask these
questions to?

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