Sometime last year I gave an interview for the ECHOES II project.

“ECHOES II aims to develop an adventurous technology- enhanced learning environment in which both typically developing children and children with Aspergers Syndrome at Key Stage 1 (ages 5-7) can explore and improve social interaction and collaboration skills. The environment will also serve as a tool for researchers, teachers, parents, and practitioners to investigate problems that children may encounter in specific social contexts and the ways in which those problems may be addressed.

The proposed technology-enhanced learning environment will combine existing technologies in new ways. With the active participation of user groups, we will combine interactive multitouch screens, gesture and gaze tracking, and intelligent agent-based context-sensitive interfaces to create a novel interactive multi-modal environment that can be adapted to the needs of specific individuals, and that can provide new ways of investigating and supporting the development of social skills in children.”

Needless to say, I didn’t get the position. However, I did get to play with creating an interactive interview using Flash in my stubborn attempt to never use Powerpoint (which I have failed in). Anyway, somehow I believed it would fit in the whole idea of using … Continue reading...