Technology that scares children

Infocult is pleased to learn of a fine research project aimed at discovering which technologies terrify children.

The scientists offered some fine examples of digital dread:

Kids want to understand how technology works and what information a device is collecting. For example, when a child asked a digital voice assistant if it would kill him in his sleep and it said, "I can't answer that," the child was concerned.

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The children were also wary of Maslo, an app with a large black dot as its interface, because it looked like a "black spirit" or a "black hole."

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Kids don't like it when technology does things unexpectedly, like automatically knowing their name or laughing. To kids, laughing could communicate hidden, and possibly malicious, intent.

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Another kid thought that laptops were creepy because his parents taped a piece of paper over the camera to "keep the robbers away."

Here in the stygian Infocult crypts, we approve of this work.

(thanks to Colin Howells)

Comments

[Visshal]

Exactly, technology may be scared children.