Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Carmenavalook (10 Jun 2003) The opera hasn't been a problem because Epoc has focused on the choices faced by Don Jose in Prosper Merimee's Carmen - in other words, on Bizet's source rather than Bizet's production. These choices would be familiar in the plot of EastEnders. Also, as Tracey Low says, "the younger kids don't have any preconceptions about opera being highbrow. They're playing the roles, so it's very interactive." Nor have they been frightened by the technology. "Even though I have been doing this for a long time, I'm still amazed by the way kids relate to it," says Barrett. "You get 7 year-olds taking digital pictures and dropping them into Word, and they can do Excel formulas without knowing a word of English. Yes, it's an inner London deprived area, but the children are so motivated, you don't notice." Article URL: http://www.nestafuturelab.org/viewpoint/tech13.htm Read 76 more articles from NESTA Futurelab sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Designing Web apps? Don't commit without client input     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy