12:00 noon – 2:00pm, Room G1, 55 George Square, University of Edinburgh
Dylan Yamada-Rice (Dubit): Designing Play: Young children's play and communication practices in relation to designers’ intentions for their toy
[Centre for Research in Digital Education]
About the speaker: Dr. Dylan Yamada-Rice is a Senior Research Manager for Dubit. Dubit is a company that focuses on research, strategy and digital for children’s entertainment brands. Previously she worked as a lecturer in Early Years Education at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests are concerned with early childhood literacy, multimodal communication practices and visual and multimodal research methods. Many of her studies have been at the intersection of academic and industry knowhow. Such as an ESRC-funded study Exploring Play and Creativity in Pre-schoolers' Use of Tablet Apps, an AHRC-funded project looking at the design of videogames for hospitalised children and a HEIF-funded project that focused on the development of a blueprint for the co-production of children in digital game design.