Mission completed

Time ended up passing much faster than I had expected. On July 31 I finally finished my second Master's thesis about "Globetoddler". Overall, I am really happy with the results. I got the following feedback from a colleague:

Reading your thesis, it reminds me a french poem that I fortunately found traducted in english : http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/La_Mort_des_amants?match=en

Elegant is the science work that remind poetry !

Not bad, huh?!

If you are interested in the project, I recommend you to download the thesis from here [zip/pdf] and/or watch the project video here [Google video].

Thank you!

Buzz Lightyear in space

Image: news.com

Another related project is NASA's collaboration with Disney - "an educational program designed to inspire children's interest in space and celestial discovery".

Daddy doll

Image: daylife.com

My former colleague Elan just sent me a link to this ABC article about the Daddy dolls. Cute!

The traveling parent blog

Image: Armchair Media

I just stumbled upon this blog by Tom Daly who introduces himself in the following way:

I am a business traveling parent of 4. This blog supports some books I wrote to help parents like me who wanted to be able to help their young kids better understand the need for business travel. I currently work for Coca-Cola and in this job, travel pretty frequently.

Turns out, Tom has written a series of (four) books related to the topic: "Sometimes i work in..." (subtitle: "What I do when I am not with you"). Really cute and very interesting. I just order all four of them.

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Supporting Long-Distance Parent-Child Interaction

Image: Svetlana Yarosh

Svetlana Yarosh at Georgia Tech contacted me a couple of days ago:

My name is Lana and I am a Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech. I saw your Globetoddler work in this CHIs proceedings (unfortunately, I wasn't able to make it to your poster while there) and I think that we may benefit from talking in-depth. I research divorced families, in particular, supporting the interaction between the distributed parent and the child.

Lana has been involved in several projects, all strongly related to Globetoddler. In particular, eMutts (Sensor Toys for Seeding Communication between Parents and Children) has many similar features.

Very inspiring and interesting work.