Kids are growing up in a world filled with ubiquitous mobile devices and access to the world’s knowledge literally at their finger tips. We are seeing children, tweens and teens who are mobile and connected. Tech-savvy kids are growing up to be tech-savvy teens and adults who are connected, social and will bring with them a new paradigm of gesture bias and interaction preferences with technologies, media and privacy. Technology is now integrated into their lives with no differentiation between their online/offline  and digital/analog worlds. This cohort will break down the traditional ideas of branding, marketing and personal privacy and continue in their dependence on online information and social media.

The focus of my research is to fin;

1.  Under what conditions do children have gesture bias? With which devices?
2. What age does this emerge, i.e., is there a systematic difference between young children and older children? Between them and their parents? For which kind of activities?
3. The role of design patterns in technology preferences and bias