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We wanted to find out what's important for kids today so we made a project to see the
world from their point of view. My name is Robin Smith and I am essentially
a product designer or inventor, and I modify technology for a living.
I was approached earlier this year to produce a piece of technology that we could use to
essentially capture the world from a child's point of view.
So what I am going to do, is put it on your head, and then we can see what you are doing
as you're running around the park. So from the outset I decided that the best
way to go about this was to look at some form of head-mounted camera.
Ok is that alright? Bye bye Caitlin.
When you actually think about the way children look at the world, they see the world from
a very, very different point of view, and what we wanted to do, was essentially as an
adult, remind ourselves exactly how the world looks to a child and recreate that in a way
that will bring back that sense of just how vast the world is.
I think what was really, really interesting about the footage is realising firstly just
how low to the ground children are, And how their sense of space is very, very
different. You know, they get much closer to things and
people, that we certainly wouldn't do as adults, and the fact that they focus on such unusual
things and how long they focus on things That we probably wouldn't even acknowledge
are there. And it certainly is quite an experience realising
just how different children's focuses are. The world clearly inspires a certain amount
of imagination that we adults just don't have and I think seeing that and realising that
is quite an exciting proposition and something that is a unique experience.