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Dermaland

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Dermaland is an installation that combines different interaction paradigms and devices that aims to promote children's awareness about the risks of UV radiation on the human skin and on the environment. It allows children to learn in a very unassuming way about two linked branches of science- dermatology and ecology. The approach is intuitive and non-didactic, based on the experiential value of the dramaturgy rather than on a set of obvious educational steps. Through employment of simple augmented objects, robots and associated projections of cellular representations, users tend to accumulate knowledge over time. This research extends that of groups who study the extent to which children can experience more abstract concepts through interactive play [2]. Dermaland was already shown at the Museum for Design in Zurich, Switzerland from June-October 2009, and the interaction was observed and analyzed through video analysis in this same environment.

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IDC '10: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
June 2010
389 pages
ISBN:9781605589510
DOI:10.1145/1810543
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  1. children
  2. dermatology
  3. ecology
  4. interactive learning
  5. robotics and drama

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