Together Anywhere, Together Anytime

Tom just sent me a link to this Pan European project: Together Anywhere, Together Anytime. The Interactive Insitute in Sweden is one of 13 different organizations. The website says:

How can technology help to nurture family-to-family relationships? This is the question asked by the collaborative project “Together Anywhere, Together Anytime” (TA2).

For many people, families form the key social unit. Many of our enduring experiences, holidays, celebrations and moments of fun and laughter are framed as family events. This is something that current technology does not address well: modern media and communications serve individuals best, with phones, computers and electronic games devices tending to be individually owned and providing individual experiences.

TA2 seeks to redress this imbalance, by exploring how technology can support group to group communication.

Sounds very interesting and related, doesn't it?

Early screen shot

I haven't written in a while, which actually is sort of a good thing. I have been working hard on my project. The image above is a screen shot from the child's end of Globetoddler. The orange avatar is controlled by the child's physical toy, whereas the green avatar has been added remotely from the parent's cell phone application.