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Kinect works by first calibrating to users’ bodies so it can track their movements when they throw a virtual ball to an on-screen character or pluck virtual carrots from Elmo’s garden. Jack, 5, and Zoe Shyba, 4, the children of mommy blogger Jessica Shyba, at first just watched the show intently when they saw it at the Sesame Workshop in New York.Īs soon the characters started to ask them to do things, they obliged. Microsoft recently gave the Associated Press and several bloggers an early look at Kinect Sesame. (Kinect Sesame is recommended for children 3 and up). They start growing out of that around 4, but by 5 they’ll have more or less grown out of ‘‘Sesame Street,’’ too. They already experience on-screen characters as if they were talking to them, even with traditional television programs. Two-and 3-year-olds, he says, are at a very ‘‘ego-centric’’ stage of development. ‘‘That’s a research question to explore,’’ Woodard says. It’s not entirely clear, though, whether that makes a difference to them. ‘‘But in this case,’’ he says, ‘‘the characters can react to the child’s response.’’
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Woodard, who worked at Children’s Television Workshop - what is now Sesame Workshop - in 1995, says that a lot of TV programming aimed at preschoolers involves characters talking to children. Kinect Sesame Street “allows the child to participate in the narrative plot,’’ says Emory Woodard, communications professor at Villanova University in Pennsylvania. As you watch children playing the ‘‘Sesame Street’’ game, it’s easy to imagine a not-so-distant future where viewers become participants, affecting a show’s outcome - much more than they do when they vote for ‘‘American Idol’’ contestants. The game is sure to arouse jealous feelings among football fans who yell at their TV sets during Sunday’s game. The episodes presage the next step in the evolution of television, adding an interactive element to what’s still a passive, lean-back experience.