Educational Technology

May 20, 2011

Virtual possessions are more valuable to teens

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:35 am

by the Times of India

A new study has found that virtual possessions – digital imagery, Facebook updates, online music collections, e-mail threads and other immaterial artifacts of today’s online world – have a powerful hold on teenagers. In a study of 21 teenagers, researchers at Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) and School of Design discovered that the very fact that virtual possessions don’t have a physical form may actually enhance their value.

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-05-10/parenting/29527565_1_digital-photo-researchers-study

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