Re: Human-Computer Interaction

Sally Tweddle (tweddlesj who-is-at cancer.bham.ac.uk)
Thu, 14 May 1998 14:08:37 GMT

Luiz wrote:
Having a B.S. in Computer Science, what do you think about "play"
in this context, and how this concept could be integrated not only in CS
education but also in its methodology?
It is my opinion that most students and professionals do play with
software, although most theories, methodologies, policies, and even
hardware, try to restrict that to a maximum. I'm not only talking about
playing games, but playing with language (including programming
languages).

I've been interested in the way young people play, play with, subvert
and re-make multimedia texts. They play music that is important
to them on the computer; they play with the cutting it up, stretching
it, adding to it etc. and they turn it into something that
represents their own voice. Exactly the same as they do
with images and words on CD ROM once they see the text as plastic and
its components as collage materials. Primary age children in
REdbridge London have been doing that as part of a project exploring
what reading with CDROMs is.

Sally

Sally Tweddle
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CRC Institute for Cancer Studies
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University of Birmingham
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