Ultimately, while there is potential for technology to make children smarter in some domains, we also know it can disrupt their attention, play and sleep. What we don't know is exactly how it impacts ...

LEGO is pushing beyond its traditional building blocks with a new screen-free technology designed to make children’s creations react, move and respond during play. The company introduced the ...

When kids play together, their word feels more alive. Meaningful conversations happen. Games are created and change as they go.

Once upon a time, children fought for control of the remote to the sole family television. Now the choice of screen-based content available to kids seems endless. There are computers, tablets, phones ...

A new technology in the form of a bracelet that helps children better understand how others play and interact has been developed by University of Bristol researchers. The bracelet, which includes ...

Years ago (more than 35), I was an unabashed supporter of kids playing video games and other "screen play” (that phrase eventually became the name of this Psychology Today blog). Now I find myself ...

Valentina Fantasia receives funding from The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanity and Society (WASP-HS). She is affiliated with the Department of Philosophy and Cognitive ...