From learning platforms to AI toys, emerging technologies for children offer great industry potential but raise significant concerns about their impact on children. A key challenge is the disconnect between innovators, educators, and researchers.
This research collaboration addresses this challenge by bringing together interdisciplinary expertise around children (e.g., education, psychology, children’s rights) and technology (e.g., computer science, design informatics, engineering) to address key questions: What are the challenges and opportunities of emerging technologies for children? What are the implications for designing to benefit children? This knowledge will then be made useful through two carefully planned high-profile events at Edinburgh Futures Institute and two well-designed public reports that integrate the experiences and expertise of practitioners and industry.
Therefore, by supporting interdisciplinarity, early career development, research-practice collaboration, and more informed entrepreneurship, this collaboration helps establish Scotland as a global centre for expertise in understanding and creating ethical technologies for children.
