PUBLICATIONS: Child-Computer Interaction by Juan Pablo Hourcade

This is the first comprehensive book on child-computer interaction, covering basic concepts as well as the latest research.

The book is ideal for graduate students entering the field, as well as for practitioners and researchers coming from other fields who want to quickly catch up with child-computer interaction research. It can also be a useful book for teaching courses on child-computer interaction.

The book is also a bit of an experiment in that it is self-published and freely available. The goal is to enable more people to access it. The hope is that this arrangement will also make it easier to make frequent updates to the book, making new versions available online.

You can download an Adobe Acrobat version of the book for free from this website. The book will soon also be available in print and Kindle format at amazon.com. The content is exactly the same.

EVENTS / NEWS: Representations of children in news media

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On Wednesday 22 April, a conference was held in London, UK, to discuss the representation of children in the media. ten years on from the Oslo Challenge. This was a collaboration between the Norwegian Government and UNICEF, and included the following challenge to media professionals at all levels and in all media:

to work ethically and professionally to sound media practices and to develop and promote media codes of ethics in order to avoid sensationalism, stereotyping (including by gender) or undervaluing of children and their rights

Read the Oslo Challenge here

The conference was organised by the Institute of Education and the Open University. Read more

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