In The Lap' has a unique interface for the two user groups. The design prioritizes usability- focusing on visual accessibility and familiar patterns.
Grandparents and grandchildren can build their own personalised library of digitised storybooks, by scanning in the spreads.
By providing a low-friction e-reading experience, long distance relatives can re-create the feeling of reading a bedtime story in grandma's lap.
Bachelor of Design with Honours
To address a lack of communication options for long-distance relatives in the digital age, In The Lap is an intergenerational platform that facilitates virtual connection over bedtime stories. It provides grandparents and grandchildren with a collaborative online library, utilising existing tablet functionality to digitise storybooks. Users can set a mutual storytime and read live together, or follow along later to recordings of live sessions, anywhere, anytime.
Storybook content from The Polar Bear and the Snow Cloud, first published in 2002 by Macmillan Children's Books an imprint of Pan Macmillan. Reproduced by permission of Macmillan Publishers International Limited. Copyright © Jane Cabrera 2002
Storybook content from The Polar Bear and the Snow Cloud, first published in 2002 by Macmillan Children's Books an imprint of Pan Macmillan. Reproduced by permission of Macmillan Publishers International Limited. Copyright © Jane Cabrera 2002