Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Hewlett Packard’s Consumer Applications and Systems Laboratory for their sponsorship and their time. Abbe Don and Gary Herman were able to provide us with insight into how to research and design successful products. We also would like to thank the HP consultants Aura Oslapas and Yoshiki Ohshima who joined us for the research presentation and brainstorm. Additionally, we would like to thank Jean Swift and Angel Mendoza from Art Center’s Corporate Relations office for coordinating this sponsorship and making it possible. We’d like to thank Davis Masten for helping us with the naming process, Rob Tow for teaching us how to devise our grand strategy, and for Michele Saee for giving us his constructive criticism on our designs midway through our process. We give special thanks to the tweens and their families for participating in our research study and sharing their world with us. Without them, this research would not have been possible.

We would like to thank the faculty of the graduate Media Design Program at Art Center College of Design. The work contained within this book would not have been possible without the incredible leadership and inspiration of Brenda Laurel (Department Chair), Anne Burdick, and Lisa Nugent who worked with us continually throughout the term. They were very devoted to the project and spent many late nights with us brainstorming and critiquing our work. We thank them for showing us new ways to think about ideas and for teaching us to ask questions in a different way. They helped us to find insight into the research by encouraging us to look for the “partial and the particular,” and in the end, we were able to find it. We would also like to thank Peter Lunenfeld and Philip van Allen for their insights and participation in the final presentation and brainstorming session. Their enthusiasm and insights were extremely helpful in moving our ideas forward.

Lastly, the research and final outcomes would not have been possible without the hours of discussion, late nights, collaboration, and the companionship offered by the Media Design graduate students: Theo Alexopolous, Jed Berk, Sebastian Bettencourt, Susan Lee, Sophine Lim, Angel Lin, Nikhil Mitter, Han Rhyu, Amy Sheppard, and Sarah Talreja; and the Industrial Design graduate students: Jason Chang, Charles Kim, Valerie Poliakoff, and Chris Rusay.