Children’s understanding of the physical properties of the
objects around them were described by the two gestalt
psychologists Otto Lipmann and Hellmuth Bogen in 1923
who coined the term ”Naive Physik“[6]. The term was later
picked up by the artificial intelligence community through
Hayes’ now classic Naive Physics Manifesto, which states
that: "Naive Physics is the body of knowledge that people
have about the surrounding physical world” [4]
It seems a logical extrapolation that modern technological
objects augmented with electronic sensing capabilities
would require us to develop new intuitions or naïve
understandings about both the resulting hybrid-object and
the specific affordances of the electronic sensor itself [1].
The black box project is an attempt to begin to probe such
an understanding of ‘naïve electronics’ in preschool
children.
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