CataKit

CataKit is an educational smart-home construction game for children to develop their creativity and computational thinking.

// How can we help children think creatively and computationally in an increasingly automated world, that keeps hidden processes in a “black box”? Video production - Andrey Grishko

// How can we help children think creatively and computationally in an increasingly automated world, that keeps hidden processes in a “black box”?

Video production - Andrey Grishko

//   Smart technologies are widespread but often serve as black boxes that obscure underlying processes. To uncover these black boxes, we designed CataKit - to encourage children to explore processes around them by iterating and debugging

//  Smart technologies are widespread but often serve as black boxes that obscure underlying processes. To uncover these black boxes, we designed CataKit - to encourage children to explore processes around them by iterating and debugging chain reactions.

// Presenting our design guidelines, described in our paper "From Smart Homes to Smart Kids: Design Research for CataKit" . Presented at the Interaction Design and Children Conference `17, Stanford.

// Presenting our design guidelines, described in our paper "From Smart Homes to Smart Kids: Design Research for CataKit". Presented at the Interaction Design and Children Conference `17, Stanford.

The Research Team
The Research Team

// PM - Aviv Sheriff

Director - Dr. Oren Zuckerman

Design - Yasmin Keats, Andrey Griskho

UX Research - Tali Randall, Rona Sadan, Hadas Erel

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