This document discusses exaptive innovation in children's interactions with technology. It proposes that children's creative reconfigurations of objects represent an exaptive phenomenon, where objects are co-opted for new uses not intended by their designers. The document outlines empirical studies on this using grounded theory and studies of situated action and socio-material reconfigurations. It discusses examples of exaptation from biology and proposes that documenting children's creative processes should capture iterations and context rather than just intentions.

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13. Thesis Child-Machine Interaction is an exaptive phenomenon

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20. Epigenetic Landscape http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics Conrad Hal Waddington - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Hal_ Waddington

21. IdeaGarden 2010 http://web.media.mit.edu/~labrune/igarden/igarden-lg-final.ogv