OLPC Human Interface Guidelines/Design Fundamentals/Know Your
Audience  Know Your Audience The goal of OLPC is to provide
children with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and
express themselves. Many children in need of such opportunities
have previously had little or no access to computing, and so
will be unfamiliar with the laptop and how to interact with it.
This will undoubtedly have effects on some aspects of activity
development. On the one hand, it means that developers must
focus energy into making interfaces discoverable, wholly
intuitive, and building metaphors that strengthen and clarify
the interface. On the other hand, since the laptop will be the
first experience of computing for many children, activities do
not have to be overly true to legacy behaviors or expectations.
This frees developers to innovate. Many of the children
receiving laptops will be as young as five or six; others will
be in their mid teenage years. Additionally, those that receive
them at a young age will continue to u