Paper presented by Tom Stewart at the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors Annual Conference 13th April 2011. Illustrated by video snippets of his young grandsons mastering the iPad, Tom reviews the experience of toddlers, silver surfers and himself living with the ipad for a year. Who needs one? Who knows but millions and millions of people clearly want this game changing device.

1. Who needs an iPad? Tom Stewart Executive Chairman, System Concepts

6. Explore and Eat – two key business tasks for toddlers

7. Effective - great apps for exploring Features only a child could find Old MacDonald had a … bulldozer

8. Efficient – the naturalness of swipe

9. Folders – no problem

10. Satisfying - endless engagement

11. Drawing is a great app

12. Potential problems - dribble proof

13. Auto rotate and American accents

14. “ Not working bumpa”

17. great mail client

18. touch works well for photos

19. accessibility as standard

25. Ask not what the iPad can do for you, ask what you can do with an iPad

26. Who needs an iPad? “ people need holes not drills”