Educational playgrounds

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...

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:

Trampoline use in homes and playgrounds.

Injuries resulting from the use of trampolines have been well documented in the medical literature for the past 50 years.[1]-[16] Trampoline injuries continue to increase over time.[1][15][17]-[19] One study [1] showed a 98% increase in trampoline injuries between 1990 and 1995. Many of these injuries require hospitalization with or without surgery, and result in permanent morbidity.[1][2][4]-[...

Constructing Typographic Playgrounds in the Metaverse

This text attempts to delve into the creation of textual content as well as its visualization through typographic design mechanisms inside three dimensional virtual worlds known as the metaverse, with a particular focus upon the way in which such virtually three dimensional environments may place the usage of text within a context that stands in contradiction to its traditional one by creating ...