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KidzFrame: an innovative system connecting working parents with their children at a daycare center

Format: Demo | Language: English | Tags: social, ubiquity
By: Javed Khan and Barbaros Metin | KidzFrame

Description
Kidzframe is an innovative system connecting working parents with their children at a daycare center. Kidzframe helps parents to receive short text messages and photos of their children while they are at the daycare center through a website. Both messages and photos are captured and communicated during the day by caretakers through mobile phones. Measures to keep the information private and secure are already foreseen in the system.

Kidzframe brings five key innovations:
1. innovation in interaction between daycare centers and parents
2. innovation regarding sharing of meaningful awareness
3. innovation regarding access to information
4. innovation regarding privacy controls
5. innovation in supporting the work of caretakers
More information can be found at Kidzframe.com

About Javed
Dr. Vassilis Javed Khan was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. After graduating from the Computer Engineering Department of University of Patras in Greece he worked as software engineering at the Computer Technology Institute (CTI) in Greece. His three year experience at CTI stimulated an interest in the field of human computer interaction. This interest lead him to the Netherlands where he completed the User-System Interaction (USI) post-masters program at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). As part of the USI program he worked at Vodafone R&D in Maastricht, the Netherlands were he researched interface and interaction aspects that affect a user’s trust in a system. For his PhD dissertation he researched the role of pervasive computing and more specifically awareness systems, in supporting intra-family communication at the Industrial Design department of TU/e. The Experience Sampling Method, one of the methods applied during his doctoral research, was the inspiration for him to continue as a post-doctoral researcher at the same department. His current research objective is to make a tool for researchers to conduct Experience Sampling studies from the comfort of their desks. He has recently become a father and has co-founded KidzFrame.com.

About Barbaros
Drs Barbaros Metin PDEng was born into the home of Turkish immigrants in the Hague, the Netherlands. When pursuing his MA in Cognitive Psychology at Leiden University he co-founded his first company in Information Technology developing websites for SME’s. In 2003 he joined the User-System Interaction (USI) post-masters program at Eindhoven University of Technology and seized the opportunity to apply scientific methods from cognitive psychology to design and evaluate user interfaces of products, services and systems. As part of the USI program he worked at Philips R&D in Eindhoven where he researched communication needs between seniors living alone and their social intimates. Recently, he co-founded KidzFrame and is awaiting the arrival of his firstborn.