Ideas for Planet(ary) Playgrounds

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:

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...

Virtual Playgrounds for Worm Behavior Investigation

To detect and defend against Internet worms, researchers have long hoped to have a safe convenient environment to unleash and run real-world worms for close observation of their infection, damage, and propagation. However, major challenges exist in realizing such “worm playgrounds”, including the playgrounds’ fidelity, confinement, scalability, as well as convenience in worm experiments. In thi...

Human Evolution: New Playgrounds for Natural Selection

Despite popular misconceptions, natural selection does operate in modern human populations. New studies even show that changes associated with modernization are deeply reshaping selection pressures and, perhaps, bits of our biological nature.