September 2018

Granada Reports Video – ESRC Educational Apps Research

If you’re interested in learning more about our ESRC funded project “Investigating the educational potential of touchscreen apps for children’s early vocabulary”, check out our recent appearance on ITV Granada Reports. Granada came to our lab here in the Allerton Building at the University of Salford. Families visiting the lab were interviewed and children were filmed wearing our eye tracking […]

New research will investigate children’s educational apps

RESEARCHERS are calling on nurseries and parents of young children to take part in a large study investigating the effectiveness of children’s educational apps. Academics from the University of Salford and Lancaster University will spend three years using eye tracking glasses to find out whether the apps, which claim to help young children learn new […]