About us
The Kids research group is part of K2lab at the IT-University in Kista. Our research interests concern new tools and methods for children’s own designing, building and sharing of computational artefacts. Currently, we are developing new technologies for programming with physical and tangible objects.

We are working with groups of elementary and middle school children that design and program their own systems, for instance animated games, fantasy worlds, and sometimes more school-related projects such as the dynamics of an ecological system.

Some projects made by our kids

Article on Kollegiet (in Swedish)

Workshop at Kista+Konst (in Swedish)

Team members

Jakob Tholander, email
Studying children's interaction with tools for programming and building of own dynamic and interactive systems. Currently involved in the design, development and study of the tangible programming space, as well as doing field studies with graphical programming tools as part of the Spläsh and the Weblabs projects.

Ylva Fernaeus, email
Studying how to develop new tools and methods for children's creative engagement with dynamic and interactive media. Currently involved in the design, development and study of the tangible programming space, as well as doing field studies with graphical programming tools as part of the Spläsh and the Weblabs projects.