She found that pictures contained many personal objects and provoked story-telling about the images, such as where the colour came from, where they got it and what it was about. “A lot of the time kids only end up playing with the clip art that comes with the software, and picking colours only from the computer’s palette” she says.īy contrast, the I/O Brush “pushes kids to look around, and explore and investigate the richness of colours that surround us”. Ryokai is critical of typical painting programmes created for children. “One kid would say ‘Hmm, I need that colour’ and other kids would suggest ideas for sources for the colour.” “I didn’t tell them to run around the classroom and look for colours,” she says, “they did it spontaneously.” The MIT researcher took the brush into a local classroom for about five weeks to see how children reacted to it. Kids are not only exploring through construction of their personal art project, but they are also exploring through construction of their own tools (i.e., the palette/ink) to build their art project with.
They can take any colors, textures, and movements they want to experiment with from their own environment and paint with their personal and unique ink. The idea of I/O Brush is to let the kids build their own ink.
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These let kids do neat things, but kids usually end up playing only with the “preprogrammed” digital palette the software provides. There are many paint/drawing programs on the market today that are designed especially for kids. On the canvas, artists can draw with the special “ink” they just picked up from their immediate environment. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. I/O Brush looks like a regular physical paintbrush but has a small video camera with lights and touch sensors embedded inside. I/O Brush is a new drawing tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by “picking up” and drawing with them.
The I/O Brush is a project by Kimiko Ryokai in the Tangible Media Group at the Media Lab. It seems like every six months or so I discover an MIT video that leaves me in awe.
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