Sesame Workshop Shares Tips For Creating Touch Screen Content
for Preschoolers Producer of Sesame Street Releases Best
Practices for Apps and eBooks Based on Proprietary Research New
York, NY, December 17, 2012 –With ownership of tablets more than
doubled over the last year1, more children than ever are
engaging with touch screen devices. Sesame Workshop, the
nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, today
released a paper that offers key findings from touch screen
studies and tips for designing and developing apps and ebooks
for preschoolers. Best Practices: Designing Touch Tablet
Experiences for Preschoolers is based on more than 50 studies
and shares Sesame Workshop’s approach and discoveries in
creating effective educational content for these mobile
platforms. Best Practices outlines interactive design points
that research has shown to best support child engagement and
learning on digital touch platforms. It also categorizes the
most and least intuitive gestures for touch screens, tips for