Designing Playgrounds for All

Experience Design for Interactive Products: Designing Technology Augmented Urban Playgrounds for Girls

Recent technological developments have made it possible to apply experience design also in the field of highly interactive product design, an area where involvement of non-trivial technology traditionally made it impossible to implement quick design cycles. With the availability of modular sensor and actuator kits, designers are able to quickly build interactive prototypes and realize more desi...

Interactive Playgrounds for Children

Play is an important factor in the life of children. It plays a role in their cognitive, social, and physical development, and provides entertaining and fulfilling activities in itself. As with any field of human endeavor, interactive technology has a huge potential for transforming and enhancing play activities. In this chapter, we look at interactive playgrounds, goals and considerations in t...

Playgrounds for the Digital Age:

The Designing Model of Sport for All in the Employees of Iranian Universities

Background. Sport for all is considered as one of the sub-indicators of human development in societies because it increases life expectancy by promoting the health of people in society. Objectives. The purpose of this study was the designing model of sport for all in the employees of Iranian universities. Therefore, a model has been designed to develop for military personnel participating in s...

New Playgrounds

Centre Trust, 13 Suffolk Street, London, S.W.I, 7 s. 6d.) If I were a boy in an adventure playground, I'd have a whale of a time. I cou' construct all sorts of contraptions out of corrugated iron, planks and old furnituf'^ Boys adore making "look-outs", as well as freedom and dirt, and it obviously do1 them the world of good. They learn to construct rather than to destroy, and 1 co-operate in s...