• DocumentCode
    1544834
  • Title

    Apes with apps

  • Author

    Schweller, Ken

  • Volume
    49
  • Issue
    7
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    7/1/2012 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    38
  • Lastpage
    45
  • Abstract
    Have you ever watched a toddler play with an iPhone? Most likely, the child was completely captivated and surprisingly adept at manipulating the tiny icons. Two-year-old Teco is no different. Sitting with his Motorola Xoom tablet, he??s rapt, his dark eyes fixed on the images, fingers pecking away at the touch screen. He can??t speak, but with the aid of the tablet app I created for him, he´s building a vocabulary that will likely total several thousand words. What??s more, he´ll be able to string those words together into simple sentences and ask questions, tell jokes, and carry on conversations.
  • Keywords
    Animals; Behavioral science; Cognition; Computer applications; Haptic interfaces; Human factors; User interfaces;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Spectrum, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9235
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSPEC.2012.6221081
  • Filename
    6221081