Video Chat Study
Maintaining familial relationships via video-chat.
The phenomenon of video-chat communication has recently become popular with families as a means of communicating with relatives that they are geographically distanced from.
Children are starting to video-chat at increasingly younger ages, and are even sitting on their parent's lap waving and clapping over the web cam before they are able to talk. In order to better understand how well young children can engage in meaningful communication through video chat, we are currently inviting parents to participate with their toddler/ young child in a video chat study at the Swinburne BabyLab.
If you are the parent of a toddler/ young child (aged 18months to 3 years inclusive) and would like to be involved or hear more about this research, please register your details. Once you do, one of our research team will contact you about our current and future studies and answer any questions you have. .
Or contact the Swinburne BabyLab by phone: 03 9214 8822, or by post at the address below.
Please mention your name and contact details as well as your child's name and date of birth.
You can download a map here which shows where we are located.
Contact the Swinburne BabyLab:
Swinburne Babylab
Dr. Jordy Kaufman
Brain Sciences Institute
Swinburne University of Technology
PO Box 218
Hawthorn, Victoria 3122
E-mail: babylab@swin.edu.au
- Read about our recent video communication study in the journal PLoS ONE