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					Charles is a 34 year old African American male who works in the entertainment industry. His daughter Morgan is 6yrs old and love to create art work and play music on her guitar. Charles is a doting father who enjoys spending time with Morgan. During a shodowing excursion to the Childrens Museum of Manhattan Charles expressed interest in bonding with his daughter by educating her during her interaction with a few installations and kiosk. Morgans attention was entirely focused on being active and having fun. Charles' interest in interacting with Morgan centered around the intellect by being instrumental as a guide and instructor. While Morgan's interest was entirely focused on the emotional by having fun and being as active as possible. Both had seperate interest as to the direction of the playtime activity yet, both enjoyed spending time together. Through our research and observations we decided to create a device or application that would satify both users interest.
					Danielle is a 36-year-old mother of two boys. She lives in Brooklyn, New York in a small single-family home with her husband Donald. Danielle has a Master's degree in public policy from an Ivy League university, and her husband runs a tutoring agency for children of the rich and famous. Their children are Zach who is six years old and Matthew who just turned three. Zach is extremely active and currently very into the "Narnia" movie, with all of its assorted toys, books and paraphernalia. He enjoys playing with his toy castle and has started to become interested in the world of Harry Potter, a likely candidate for replacing "Narnia." Matthew's world is heavily influenced by his brother. If Zach has a castle, then Matthew wants one too. Danielle's home life is dominated by the children. As long as they are awake, caring for them and entertaining them is either her primary task, or a continuous and demanding background task that influences the quality of everything else she does. Like many of the families we researched, they greatly enjoy playing with their children, but often find that their day-to-day interactions are dominated by functional or disciplinary tasks. But Danielle and Donald aren't just attending to their kids. They also must focus on all the other adult demands of jobs, chores, friends and their marriage, so the kids are in competition for a very limited resource. Games and toys and interactive activities are needed to allow the family to break through the complications of everyday life and attend to each other in a way that's enjoyable for all involved. A good activity will entertain the child and the adult equally, despite their vastly different intellectual capabilities and motivations. Like most children, Zach and Matthew especially enjoy participating in adult-type activities.