Research // Children's Commissioner Anne Longfield - Digital 5 a day

Children’s Commissioner for England (Anne Longfield) launched a 'Digital 5 a day' to help keep children’s online lives healthy. It provides a simple framework for families to guide their use of technology to promote children’s wellbeing and help children use technology responsibly, respectfully and creatively.

The 5 A Day advice is:

1. Connect: Message, have fun and play with friends and family both online and offline.
2. Be active: Take some time off and get active - movement helps boost emotional wellbeing.
3. Get creative: Don’t just browse the internet but use digital tools to create content, to build new skills and discover new passions.
4. Give to others: Be positive online, report bad content and help others to balance their own 5-a-day.
5. Be mindful: If time online is causing stress or tiredness then take some time off and ask for help when you need it. 

Anne Longfield said "I hope this 5 A day guide will encourage parents and their children to talk about how they can use the internet and technology positively, creatively and mindfully, and that it acts as a basis for family agreements about internet and digital device use throughout the summer holidays and term time."

Research sourced from: https://www.childnet.com/blog/childrens-commissioner-launches-digital-5-a-day-to-help-keep-childrens-online-lives-healthy

Based on the NHS’s evidence-based ‘Five steps to a better mental wellbeing’, the 5 A Day campaign gives children and parents easy to follow, practical steps to achieve a healthy and balanced digital diet.

Research sourced from: https://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/2017/08/06/digital-5-a-day/

Research// Tips on how to limit excessive screen time

- Is your family screen time under control? 

- Does screen use interfere with what your family want to do?

- Does screen use interfere with sleep?

- Are you able to control snacking during screen time?

How to prevent .... 

SET BOUNDARIES 

Last year (2018), Anne Longfield published the Digital 5 A Day campaign, which encouraged the whole family to have a healthy digital lifestyle, including parents.

"It can't be that parents have their phones in their hand the whole time. It works best if the whole family can look into a healthy digital way of life." 

Anne Longfield's tips for managing screen time include: 

• Set some boundaries. You wouldn't let a nine-year-old walk alone down a busy road. Phone use is the same, if a child has a smartphone at a young age you need to be aware of the dangers on their behalf. 
• If screen time is affecting sleep, meal time interaction, diet, and exercise then negotiate and make a deal. This might be that the phone is not used at the dinner table or in the bedroom, or before breakfast, or until homework is completed.
• Consider your own use, parents need to demonstrate good behaviour.

Ms Longfield is now calling on the government to put digital emotional resilience into schools in Years 6 and 7. She is also calling for tech companies to be more "robust and have a duty of care for their users".

PRIORITSE SLEEP 

Dr Richard Graham is a child and adolescent psychiatrist. In 2010, he launched the UK's first Technology Addiction Service for young people, and is on the board of the UK Council for Child Internet Safety. 

He recommends that clients adopt the American Academy of Pediatrics family media plan, which allows a family to set limits together. 

"This plan helps a family to look at the sort of media you are going to access, rather than restriction without explanation. 

"There is good stuff online, which can make us feel well and healthy. A funny filter on Snapchat for example, can lift a child's mood. But there is also toxic content, and also the fact that screen time can disrupt important and necessary things like sleep, exercise and conversation."

His tips include: 

• Prioritise sleep. A well-rested child is more in control and able to think and discuss than a tired and irritable one. The American Academy of Pediatrics website offers a guide to the length of sleep your child needs for their age. Calculate their bedtime based on when they have to get up. 
• Be wary about surveillance as it can drive behaviour underground. It's important children feel they can talk about issues. 
• Less time online equals less exposure to the possibility of toxic content. Says Dr Graham: "It makes sense that if the window is not open so wide, less dirt will fly in."

Information sourced from https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46758809

Research // Types of Household Rules Kids Need

1. Rules That Promote Safety

- Physical safety might address things like, “Sit on the furniture only (no standing or jumping)” and “Don’t answer the door when Mom’s in the shower.”

- Emotional safety may include household rules like, “Use kind words only,” and “Everyone can share their feelings as long as they show respect.” 

- When kids feel safe, they are free to focus their energy on exploring their talents and their environment.

2. Rules That Promote Morality

- Create rules that install values and morals in your children. These types of rules may include things like, "Tell the truth," and "Apologize when you're sorry."

- Role model these issues. Your children will learn more from what you do, rather than what you say.

3. Rules That Develop Healthy Habits

- Children do best when they have routine and structure.

- Create rules that encourage your child to develop daily habits. For example, “Brush your teeth after breakfast,” or “Put your dirty clothes in the hamper.”

- Creating healthy habits and routines helps reduce power struggles. 

-  When children know that they are supposed to hang their coat up when they come home from school or that they’re supposed to do homework right after dinner, it can reduce a lot of arguing as long as there are clear consequences for misbehaviour.

4. Rules That Promote Social Skills

- Kids also need rules that teach them social skills. For example, “Share your toys with your brother,” or “Take turns while playing the game,” teach appropriate ways to interact with others.

- Older kids may need rules about their electronics. Establish rules that limit your child's smartphone and computer use and rules that encourage appropriate etiquette. For example, make the dinner table a "phone-free zone" and don't allow your child to sleep with a smartphone in his room. 

5. Rules That Prepare Kids for the Real World

- Kids need rules that will help prepare them for becoming adults. 

- Setting rules about chores and money helps prepare kids for the working environment.

- Provide kids with chores and the opportunity to earn an allowance. Then, teach them about money so they can learn how to save and spend money wisely so they are better prepared for paying their own bills as adults.

Create Your List of Household Rules 

- Use a positive spin

- Be prepared to enforce the rules 

- Provide consequences for broken rules

- Review the rules often

- Allow the kids to offer in put

- Be a good role model

- Own your mistakes

- Provide a short explanation of the rules

- Post your list of rules

- Explain exceptions to the rules

Research sourced from https://www.verywellfamily.com/types-of-rules-kids-need-1094871

Research // The harmful Effects of too much screen time for children

Information sourced from: https://www.verywellfamily.com/the-negative-effects-of-too-much-screen-time-1094877

Sleep Problems - The light emitted from screens interferes with the sleep cycle in the brain and can lead to insomnia.

Behavioural Problems - Access to the computer or TV for more than 2hrs a day can cause behavioural problems and children are more likely to have emotional, social, and attention problems. Excessive TV viewing has even been linked to increased bullying behaviour. 

Educational problems - Children with TVS in their room do worse on academic tests 

Violence - Exposure to violent TV shows, movies, music, and video games can cause children to become desensitised to it. Eventually, they may use violence to solve problems and may imitate what they see on TV. 

Digital devices can harm your relationship with your child 

Adults as well as children can suffer from obesity and sleeping issues. 

In a 2015 survey by AVG Technologies, one-third of children reported feeling unimportant when their parents looked at their smartphones during meals or when playing together. Even replying to a quick text message could be sending your child another message—that your phone is more important than he is. 

Giving your child interrupted care—by repeatedly checking your smartphone—could also affect his development and his mental health. A 2016 study suggests looking at your digital devices could increase your child's chances of developing mental health problems, like depression.

Establishing Family Rules With Electronics

Consider occasional family detoxs from electronic devices! Create a screen-free night once a week or commit to unplugging one weekend a month. It could be good for everyone's physical and emotional health, as well your family's relationships.

House hold rules to be considered: 

- No digital devices during family meals 
- No screen time in the car 
- No screens allowed in bedrooms 
- No electronics during family fun nights

Map - Final outcome

Overview 

The following Final Outcome includes some of the most popular/

romantic places in Leeds to get prosed too. The following map/guide

replicates 15 of the top locations around Leeds such as Otley Chevin, Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds Town Hall, Leeds Cathedral, Leeds Grand Theatre, Swinton Park, Knaresborough Park, Northern Ballet, Leeds Minster, Temple Newsam, The Tetley,City Square, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Dakota Deluxe and Park Square. 

The Final Outcome has been perpetrated together due to one layer 

accounting for laser cut out flaps which lift up, making the map interactive for it’s audience so the overall outcome is appealing. The lift up flaps also replicate a traditional proposal due to ring boxes always lifting upwards when one gets down on their knee. Each flap consists of a letter form to replicate the mysterious/ unexpectedness of proposals so it takes the 

viewer time to read the statement on all the boxes once put together ‘WILL YOU MARRY ME?’ just as it takes people time to digest a proposal as they often are a surprise.

Typefaces

Two traditional contrasting typefaces have been used for the Final 

Outcome such as Josefin Sans and Pinyon Script standing out clearly on the map and dividing up information with a clear hierarchy making the 

overall outcome highly legible and clean. Josefin Sans is elegant with a vintage feeling and works well at larger sizes represented via the Final 

Outcome. Alternatively, Pinyon Script is a romantic round hand script style font. Pinyon Script also has a friendly and inviting feeling to it relating to proposals having a strong personal but also welcoming touch to them.  The type has been printed in contrasting colours to the stock to enhance its legibility and cleanness. 

Printing process 

Screen printing has been used as part of the printing process for the map design with it being a very hand rendered technique. This specific printing technique gives the Final Outcome again more of a personal touch with weddings being very personalised and a creative process in order for them to look aesthetically pleasing. Proposals/ weddings also hold great heritage as does screen printing. 

Colour Theory / choices 

Red and white have been used for the Final Outcome colours due to them being two highly contrasting colours making the Final Outcome striking and visually pleasing. Traditional weddings also hold strong contrast between the bride (often who wears white) and bridesmaids. Also white represents light, goodness,innocence, purity, and virginity connecting to wedding values. Alternatively, when referring back to colour theory red represents many positives such as being in love, infatuation, strong emotions,

excitement, energy, strength, and passion that comes with love, weddings and proposals. In addition, it seems the following colour choices are well suited to the topic. 

Stock

White watercolour (to enhance the elegance and heritage of weddings) along with red card have been used as the chosen stock for the Final 

Outcome. These colours relate to traditionalism of weddings due to them being popular colour choices for bride and grooms on their special day. 

Screen printing

Map - Initial ideas / feedback

Idea 1:

The following initial ideas displays a ring box with confetti hearts inside so when the ring box opens the audience are surprised by the confetti going everywhere with key locations in Leeds for proposal on. This relates to traditional proposals often being a surprise and unexpected. However, I did not go with this idea because I felt pieces of the confetti could go missing meaning key locations could be missed out by the audience. 

Figure 2.

This map would be more to scale as to where popular/ key locations are in Leeds for proposal. The map would have lift up flaps to symbolise a traditional ring box with the key locations written on the inside of the flaps. Myself and peers likes this idea most because it was most informative as to whereabouts the key locations were whilst being interactive with its audience. 

Figure 3.

This idea would replicate a flower due to them often being associated at weddings in particular. This idea replicates a flower which could have been perpetrated with the petals tearing off and turning into confetti to relate the aesthetic of weddings. 

Figure 4.

This initial ideas represents a info graphic which shows how popular each place in Leeds is for proposals. The symbolic visuals of the rings could clearly demonstrate this. 

Research Presentation 1st Crit

Are Loans and Finances adding 

to the pressure of 

Social Media? 

Slow movement
Create account - manipulate strategies (Instagram feed vs tagged photos)
Break down of a meal - how it looks fancy vs the cost
Frugal
Primary research - find a range of people
Hedonistic adaptation
After how much money are you satisfied?
People buying things just for a social media post to take it back
Instagram into a newspaper would it have the same impact?

Tom Joyes - Graphic Designer

Works within the cultural industry
Elephant magazine

Checkpoints and Chokepoints - Migration in design research Kollektor

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I wanna deliver a dolphin - Aikiaiki

Tom Joyes - Graphic Designer

Works within the cultural industry
Graphic Designer for Elephant magazine

Checkpoints and Chokepoints - Migration in design research Kollektor

References

1. I wanna deliver a dolphin - Aikiaiki 
2. Swallowable Parfum - Lucy McRae
3. Protofarm 2050 - Foragers 
4. Technological Dream Series: No. 1. Robots
5. Oliver Laric, Versions 2009
6. Salvjila 
7. Forbiddenknowledge 
8. Limiquela
9. BALENCIAGA Spring 19 campaign
10. Real Snow White
11. Bras eye: Science (episode 3) / Drugs (episode 2)

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