Quick chat

Had a really good chat with Katina today about my project. Chris suggested I talk to her about it due to the work she’s doing with Infinite Infants. I ran thru my ideas, what I originally wanted to do, what I think I want to do now, pretty much everything I talked about with Chris in my first meeting. Collaborative play/working came up and researching to see if children with autism will do it more via computer than in the “real world”. This is brilliant, I never even considered that angle before. Kartina suggested a virtual room which they can colour as they want and do stuff in but with the ability to invite their friends in for a play. As one of the core values that I want to keep with the project is that “the thing” must be tailorable to fit the child, allowing them to decorate the room as they want definitely fits that. Something to bear in mind, as Katina said, the front end should be something that can run on a large touch screen as well as a monitor so everything needs to run off one-click.

This is all brilliant. Time to track down building virtual worlds.